Disable ads!

36 quotes by Lamar Alexander

Andrew Lamar Alexander, Jr. (born July 3, 1940) 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. Born in Maryville, Tennessee, Alexander is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and New York University School of Law. He worked as a legislative...
Read full biography of Lamar Alexander →

I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too much debt... →

0

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... →

0

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... →

0

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... →

0

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... →

0

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... →

0

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... →

0

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... →

0

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... →

0

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... →

0
Add a quote!
Background photo by Giuliana