Bredesen Quotes

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

Phil Bredesen

#2. 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.

Phil Bredesen

#3. 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.

Phil Bredesen

#4. When John Kerry and Zell Miller and George Bush can agree on an issue, you know it's got legs.

Phil Bredesen

#5. My education commitment is simple. I believe that every child is unique. Im going to work as hard as I know how, and Im going to ask each of you to help me to offer all Tennessee children the education they need to energize their God-given talents to take them as far as they can go.

Phil Bredesen

#6. We'll have to wait the old-fashioned way.

Wolf Blitzer

#7. 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.

Phil Bredesen

#8. We're really at this point where we can take a step back and think about the next big things that we want to do.

Mark Zuckerberg

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

Phil Bredesen

#10. Maybe anything that anybody ever has is for now. What happened before is gone, and what will happen later is an illusion.

Tom Upton

#11. As each of us awakens, it impacts human consciousness at a collective level. It is like dropping a tiny pebble of light into a dark pool of unconsciousness . Ripples of light!

Leonard Jacobson

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

Phil Bredesen

#13. We don't go to war on narrow, partisan votes.

Phil Bredesen

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

Phil Bredesen

#15. I see the beatitudes of books displayed on a bookshelf.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Light - i.e. space - is the structure of time, the essence of existence. The stuff of physics does not involve time. Orthodox contemporary physics sadly refers to this fact as the problem of time.

Eric Bredesen

#17. I write you a letter that begins
With I love you and ends with I love you and
Somewhere in the middle is one goodbye for
Every hurt

Patricia Smith

#18. Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.

Phil Bredesen

#19. Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target.

Phil Bredesen

#20. Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses.

Phil Bredesen

#21. To me, if the writing doesn't have rhythm, it feels dead. I lose all confidence. The music has to emerge to feel confident enough to move on to the next major chapter.

Matt De La Pena

#22. 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.

Phil Bredesen

#23. Anger is action without thoughts.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Phil Bredesen

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

Phil Bredesen

#26. Look to the Lord and not to the world for your ideas and ideals about men and women.

Sheri L. Dew