Lamar Alexander: “We had to make some tough choices as we went through the budget.”

These are not very happy days for Tennessee. This is not a happy day for me.

I made a plea for bipartisan cooperation as my closing speech in the U.S. Senate today.

We don’t believe in canceling part of our history. We wanted our children to understand that the American Republic has never been a perfect union but that its greatness is that it has always struggled to reach noble goals.

I think you've got to take office early in order to stop what's going on.