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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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