Phil Bredesen quotes:

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

When I was sworn in as Mayor of Nashville back in 1991, I have to admit to you that I felt for several weeks like a bit of an outsider who had somehow taken over but didnt really belong in this nice palace. I secretly wondered if the real mayor would come back from vacation one day and call the police.

My education commitment is simple. I believe that every child is unique. Im going to work as hard as I know how, and Im going to ask each of you to help me to offer all Tennessee children the education they need to energize their God-given talents to take them as far as they can go.