“It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.” — Phil Bredesen Quote

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.

When John Kerry and Zell Miller and George Bush can agree on an issue, you know it's got legs.

We don't go to war on narrow, partisan votes.

Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target.

When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I was a translator for a missionary group, and I spent years in a Tijuana dump. People were really thrown by the fact that the Mexican poor, many of them pureblood indigenous people, seemed happy.

I used to work with a relief group that took care of the people in the dump. We took them food and water and medicine and built homes and took them to church services, whatever was needed.

I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.

I tend to get over someone in my head before I actually dump them.