When John Kerry and Zell Miller and George Bush can agree on an issue, you know it's got legs.

Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses.

Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.

Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target.

The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.

If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world.

When John Kerry and Zell Miller and George Bush can agree on an issue, you know it's got legs.

The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.

Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.

I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.

Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.

Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.

We don't go to war on narrow, partisan votes.

We have in Tennessee a number of wonderful faith-based clinics to serve the uninsured. It is an important principle with them that everyone pays something as they are able.

Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.

We always think of a diet with a big groan. But I think diets are fun. I think it is an American pastime for a lot of women.

Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.

Any perjury case is a tough case. You just don't go on 'he said-she said.' You have to find corroborating evidence.

We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed.

Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.

If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the people's desperate need for change.

When I was a kid, I didn't have any girlfriends. I was a very nerdy-type dude. Believe me, being a ham does not turn girls on.

I definitely don't like to eat a lot before I play. I don't like to play on a full stomach. Sometimes, if I'm feeling hungry before a game, I'll eat one of those protein bars, but that's it.

Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.

I played soccer for 12 years on three different teams at a time.

The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in their own communities. The siting decisions and the permitting is done at the local level, or by state governments if it's interstate in nature. And federal government - this is one area we have no authority.

Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.

When we first started, everything was animated, everything was comedy, and there was really nothing that was longer than about two minutes, because that's all audiences would watch.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people.

In the summer of 2007, two-time Olympic champion Guillermo Rigondeaux and his teammate, Erislandy Lara, had been arrested in Brazil after going AWOL from the Cuban team during the Pan Am Games. The defection attempt made international news and quickly became a national soap opera, regularly appearing on Cuban news and round table discussions.

We're never going to stop! Three hundred shows a year forever!

Personally, I'm a little more confident when I have a script.

I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually.

I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time.

In youth we learn, in age we understand.

That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.