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

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.

You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.

I go about saying how pained and tormented, how lonely and sad I feel, but what do I really mean by that? If I were to speak the truth, I would die.

He couldn’t jeopardize the saloon because of some silly infatuation with an outlaw. Even one as beautiful as Mariah Ayers.

I try to be positive. I speak to my players about how we have to play, respect the rules. What I have done is always be positive.

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.

I am an artsy girl. It's no secret that I am artsy, you know.

The story was a sleeping girl in a narrow bed Dark hair thick and wild and twisted like seaweed across the pillow... Bella's Lullaby

The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.