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

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.

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.

To get over a mountain, you have to climb it.

The good should be grateful to the bad - for providing the world with a basis for comparison.

Art is all about becoming a name, a brand; it isn't based on talent or creativity.

I'm always one time zone behind myself.

Think the best of each other, especially of those you say you love. Assume the good and doubt the bad.

I find it very difficult to do normal things without getting approached.

Every country has their problems.

Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?

I could not think of being unkind, even to a mortal enemy. It would hurt me. I see so much unkindness in the world, and there is no excuse for me to add to it.

‎You cannot correct an old person every time they say something offensive. You would never make it through Thanksgiving dinner!