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.

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.

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.

Sleep is death enjoyed.

I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world.

If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.

Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.

The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]

There's so many inspiring people out there.

We are bound only by the limits of our imaginations.

I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.

Very few people ever meet celebrities. All we really know is what we read about them and the most memorable lines are jokes. That's how we tend to define what we think of a public figure.

It is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.