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I think higher education is over-regulated.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Higher
Higher Education
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Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Fit
Jackets
One Size Fits All
Size
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If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Immigration
Defend
Solution
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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.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Dozen
Eggs
Milk
Needs
Reality
Gallon
Price
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Composition
Governor
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When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for inspiration.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Election
Inspiration
Alexander
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Forbes
Should
Vote
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Arrested
Forbes
Mr
Bush
Votes
Wasting
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The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Country
Goal
Pieces
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The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Bipartisan
Legislation
Result
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Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Presidential
Race
Sooner Or Later
Winning
Begin
Sooner
Candidate
Presidential Race
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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.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Real World
Remind
The Real World
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Tennessee
Governor
The Only Thing
Unify
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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.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Campaign
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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.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Conservatives
Republicans
Finish
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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.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Aisle
Both Sides
Colleagues
Senate
Sides
Work Where Your
Work Your Important
Required
Votes
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I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Country
Goal
Health Care
Health Care Costs
Reducing
Thinking
Care Costs
Toward
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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.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Running
Government
Ideas
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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.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Political Beliefs
Beliefs
Governor
Only One Way
Our Music
Unify
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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.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
University
Charge
Governor
Mayor
More And More
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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.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Alternatives
Carbon
Climate Change
Contributing
Ought
Change Look Climate
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It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Buddhist
California
Southern
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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.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
White House
Budget
Send
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September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Charitable
Country
Powerful
September
September 11
Unified
Brought
Instincts
Reminded
Stood
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I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Arrogant
Love Stupid People
Empire
Hundred Years
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Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
American Life
Promise
Life Change Thinking
Extend
Primarily
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Disconnected
Tennessee
Politics Me People
Accuse
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It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Character
Doe
Interesting
Our Lives
Rare
Brought
Earn
Helped
Moods
Richer
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If the administration asks for $5 and Congress appropriates $4, that's what they get. If the government creates a subterfuge by going outside the government to raise money through a private entity, that's a violation of the law.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Administration
Entity
Violation
Money Government Law
Creates
Raise
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President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We didn't get it, and we were disappointed. But we did not go out and form a corporation to pay for it. That would have been a problem.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Appropriate
Disappointed
Dollars
President Bush
Vouchers
Bush
Corporation
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There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters are of that.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
War
Iraq
Numbers
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There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Nation Building
Parameters
Wonder
Conservatives
Wars
Engage
Republicans
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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.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Achievement
Backgrounds
Different Backgrounds
Great Achievement
Greater
Unity
Variety
Only Country
Turned
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I think people are looking for a president who has views and who sticks to those views. So, I think Governor Romney, Governor Perry, Governor Huntsman are all terrific candidates. I think we got a chance to elect a real, executive leader.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Candidates
Governor Romney
Romney
Sticks
Terrific
Views
Elect
Executive
Governor
Perry
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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.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Old Things
People
Would Be
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Auto Industry
Bail
Cost
Detroit
Japan
Mexico
Rebuilding
Suppliers
Tennessee
Auto
Billion
Competitive
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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.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Miles
Nuclear
Transmission
Wind
Facilities
Impractical
Primarily
Sites
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If we trust parents to choose child care for their children, and we trust them to help their children choose a college to attend – and both those systems have been so successful – why do we not also trust them to choose the best elementary or high school for their children?
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Children
School
Successful
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The main interest of most members of the Christian Coalition is the breakdown of the family. I think that's our biggest problem, and if the whole country was as concerned and active in issues of the family as members of the Christian Coalition are, we'd probably be better off as a country.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Active
Better Off
Breakdown
Concerned
Members
Biggest Problem
Coalition
Main
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I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too much debt, too many Washington takeovers, and they want to provide a check and a balance to what they see as a runaway, overreaching Washington government.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Runaway
Voters
Check
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I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Competent
Focused
President Bush
Remember When
Bush
Democrats
Republicans
George
George W
George W. Bush
Suddenly
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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.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Consumed
Don't Care
Health Care
Jam
Messy
Health People Will
Anyway
Bill
Unpopular
Washington
Democrats
Health Care People
Pass
Procedure
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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.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Diesel
Harvard
Higher Education
Job Growth
Marketplace
Nashville
Bosses
Oriented
Reduce
Regulations
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The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping water at the farm well ... But the windmills we are talking about today are not your grandmother's windmills. Each one is typically 100 yards tall, two stories taller than the Stature of Liberty, taller than a football field is long.
Lamar Alexander / United States Senator
Football
Grandmother
Talking
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