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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
- Support
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Higher Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think higher education is over-regulated.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Disconnected
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020