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

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. — Phil Bredesen

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

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

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. — Phil Bredesen

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. — Phil Bredesen

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

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. — Phil Bredesen

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

I once had a long relationship with a lady, and wherever I went in the world, if I saw something she would look great in, a gown or gloves or a ring, I always knew what color she liked most. I knew her size, what material she appreciated most, and I spent the whole time buying gifts for her. And I loved her very much. — Raymond Burr

It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing. — Mercedes Lackey

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

Light - i.e. space - is the structure of time, the essence of existence. The stuff of physics does not involve time. Orthodox contemporary physics sadly refers to this fact as the problem of time. — Eric Bredesen

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. — Phil Bredesen

In 1860, the average price of a male slave of prime working age was roughly $2,000, whereas the average wage of a free farm laborer was on the order of $200. — Thomas Piketty

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. — Phil Bredesen

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

Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts. — St. Jerome

If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better ... or you're getting worse. — Tom Peters

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

Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do. — James Taylor

It is all right to cry but don't give up on laughter. Don't give up on happiness. You need both. I had both. — Joe Hill

Connecting today is a dialogue. — Mark Parker

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

My craziest on-set story comes from during the Goonies, when I came up to Spielberg and said that I wanted to climb the walls of the tunnels and that it represented my mother's womb, for some odd reason. I was reading Stanislawski at the time and Spielberg's response was "Why don't you just act." — Josh Brolin

Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II — William Blum

Mozart's first work regarded today as a masterpiece, with its status confirmed by the number of recordings available, is his Piano Concerto No. 9, composed when he was twenty-one. That's certainly an early age, but we must remember that by then Wolfgang had been through eighteen years of extremely hard, expert training. — Geoff Colvin