Lamar Alexander actually said...

"I would look for a little bit of experience. And Tom has it in terms of being a legislator."

"We don't want to replace a failed Washington, DC. health care system with another failed Washington, DC. health care system."

"We want to do this right. We want to sequence the events carefully and adequately so that Americans have concrete, practical alternatives in place of what is there today."

"If your local bridge in Georgia or in Tennessee were very near collapse, the first thing you'd do, I would think, is to send in a rescue crew to repair the bridge temporarily so no one else is hurt."