Lamar Alexander
Lamar Alexander
Andrew Lamar Alexander, Jr.is an American politician and the senior United States senator from Tennessee having served since 2003. A member of the Republican Party, Alexander previously served as the conference chair of the Republican Party in the US Senate from 2007 to 2012...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth3 July 1940
CityMaryville, TN
CountryUnited States of America
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Today's announcement is very good news for families and communities across West Tennessee as they recover and rebuild following the tragic storms that struck this weekend.
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We don't have a president who is our agenda-setter, so we have multiple voices on every issue.
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In the Senate, where 60 votes are required to do anything important, you have to work with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle.
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If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.
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I've got a new rule. It'll be rule No. 312. If it's three days before a campaign, don't believe anything new you hear about anybody.
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I think there are too many bosses in Washington telling Nashville Diesel College and Harvard University how to run - how to run their campuses, and I'd like to reduce the number of Washington regulations on higher education and keep this marketplace of wonderful institutions among which students can choose; that's oriented toward job growth.
When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for inspiration.
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I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
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I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.
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As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.
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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.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
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Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.