Lamar Alexander

We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a read more

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.

Every day before school, I would bang away on Czerny, Bach, Beethoven and Mozart-and throw in a little Jerry Lee read more

Every day before school, I would bang away on Czerny, Bach, Beethoven and Mozart-and throw in a little Jerry Lee Lewis when I thought no one was around to correct me.

He has a lot of talent. He won a very tough race and is an excellent speaker.

He has a lot of talent. He won a very tough race and is an excellent speaker.

We don't have a president who is our agenda-setter, so we have multiple voices on every issue.

We don't have a president who is our agenda-setter, so we have multiple voices on every issue.

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a read more

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.