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."

"Let us see what you can do with this. Take this money and combine it with yours, combine it with private money and we will be the enablers. We will not be the mandaters."

"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."