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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Americans wouldn't do that [cashing out the same day]. Then they would be in the great old thing we used to call the marketplace. You know, we have hundreds of millions of stock shares floating every day. People buy them and sell them and trade them.
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Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.
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Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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 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.
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If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.
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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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To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.