Phil Bredesen Quotes & Sayings

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

“Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.”

“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.”

“We have in Tennessee a number of wonderful faith-based clinics to serve the uninsured. It is an important principle with them that everyone pays something as they are able.”

“It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.”