Lamar Alexander Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.”

“It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.”

“We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.”

“I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.”

“I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.”

“To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.”

“Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.”

“There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.”

“Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.”

“I think higher education is over-regulated.”