Lamar Alexander actually said...

"I used to chafe most under people who did not think I had enough sense to figure those things out for myself in our local schools."

"One of the unintended consequences we may have learned from the Affordable Care Act is that even though it sounds like a good idea to require people to buy more benefits with a health insurance policy..."

"We have some big ideological differences on this committee, but we also get a lot done, sometimes unanimously, because we go through that process."

"Sometimes up here, we are more ideological in Washington."