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.

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.

When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for inspiration.

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.

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.

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.