The last president to pay off the national debt was Tennessee's Andrew Jackson, ... Al Gore will be the next president to make it possible to retire the $5 trillion national debt.

I came to the issue by accident.

Rather than the constituents electing the members of the legislatures across the land and the Congress, the members of the Congress and legislatures elect their constituents.

She killed seven men in cold blood, ... She didn't premeditate the individual killing. She had a pattern, and she took targets of opportunity ... just whoever happened in her path on the day that she decided to kill.

[If voters aren't pushing for a change in the system, it's hard to expect members of Congress to volunteer to give themselves tougher competition.] You're asking people to give up an enormous amount of power, ... It's going to have to come from the outside.

When you're talking about people whose assets are taxable, ... You're talking about just about every small business owner in this country.

Not much different from the present killer in the D.C. area.

Let me tell all of you how proud all of us are of the 913th and the Tennessee Guard.

All of us are familiar with Col. Davy Crockett and his band of Tennesseans at the (Battle of the) Alamo.