The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.

The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world.

Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target.

Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses.

When John Kerry and Zell Miller and George Bush can agree on an issue, you know its got legs.

If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.

The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.

Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.

Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.

Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.

Human nature in time is engraved in history.

One of the critical factors that make people’s dreams become nightmares is that they don’t know there is a cost to be paid!

You must learn to wait properly.

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.

Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is cleverer than that, that's the bottom line).

Violence is the weapon of the weak.

Outer achievements should be expressions of inner abundance, not compensation for inner poverty.

The people we are in relationships with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs.

Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.