Lamar Alexander

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

I appreciate your kind words and your friendship, @JohnCornyn. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

Thank you very much, @Sen_JoeManchin. I was glad to work with you to #RestoreOurParks and on other important legislation in the Senate. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

We may seem like an unlikely pair, but Senator Murray was a preschool teacher, and I was raised by a kindergarten teacher, and we have found a lot of common ground because we both learned that early childhood lesson: Play well together. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

Thank you, @PattyMurray, for you partnership and your leadership on some of the most important issues of our time. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

Thank you, @ChrisCoons. I especially appreciate your strong support of the #MusicModernizationAct. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

.@SenatorRisch, Honey and I are lucky to call you and Vicki our friends. Thank you for the kind words. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

Thank you, @SenJackyRosen. I enjoyed working with you on so many HELP-related issues. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

Thank you for the kind words, @MarshaBlackburn. You have been a good partner to work with in the U.S. Senate for all Tennesseans. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

Thank you for the kind words, @SenCapito. I appreciate your leadership and support on the #OpioidCrisisResponse Act and so many other issues. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

Thank you, @SenJoniErnst. I was glad to work with you on many issues—including our work this year to support child care providers. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

As a United States Senator, I wake up every day thinking I may be able to do something good for our country, and I go to bed most nights thinking that I have. It has been a great privilege to serve the people in Tennessee, as governor and in the United States Senate. https://t.co/AevZiKNrOz — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

And, finally, please tell them that I wake up every day thinking I may be able to do something good for our country and that I go to bed most nights thinking that I have. Please tell them that it has been a great privilege to be a United States Senator. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

Remind them that most of the rest of the world wishes they had our remarkable system of government and that the US Senate has been, and I hope continues to be, the institution that does more than any other to create broad agreements to solve great problems and unify our country. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

And most of our politics is about disappointments in not reaching the high goals that we have set for ourselves, such as all men are created equal. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

As the political scientist Samuel Huntington wrote, most of our arguments are about conflicts among principles with which most Americans agree. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

That we are not perfect, but, as our Constitution says, we are always working to form a more perfect union. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

I hope you will remind them that we live in a remarkable country with the strongest military, the best universities and 20 percent of all the money in the world for just 5 percent of the people. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

On one screen are the tweets and acrimonious confirmation hearings. But on the other screen, senators are working together to strengthen national defense, national laboratories, national parks and the @NIH. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

My reply is always the same: Please suggest to your students that they look at Washington, D.C., as a split screen television. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

Invariably one teacher will ask, “Senator, what would you like us to tell our students about being a United States senator?” — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

My favorite time as a senator has been inviting onto the Senate floor American history teachers who are attending the academies that were established in legislation proposed in my maiden address. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

Being a senator is more like bring a parade organizer. You pick the route, recruit the marchers, select the music and even pick someone else to be the drum major — and then you walk in the middle of the parade so the marchers don’t march into the ditch. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

Being governor is like being Moses. To get something done, you say, “Let’s go this way.” — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

Some former governors don’t like being a senator. Not me. The jobs are just different. In both jobs you pick an urgent need, develop a strategy and try to persuade at least half the people you are right. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

Why join the Grand Ole Opry if you don’t want to sing? And I guarantee you that if 15 or 20 Republicans and 15 or 20 Democrats in this talented body set out to change that practice, it would change. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

And the behavior that needs to change first is for individual senators to stop blocking amendments of other senators. If you are opposed to something, you ought to vote no. Why stop the entire body from considering the amendment? — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

You don’t have to eliminate the filibuster to restore the Senate to its traditional role of working across party lines to solve big problems. We don’t need a change of rules. The Senate needs a change of behavior. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

But it’s hard to accomplish something if you don’t vote on amendments. Lately, the Senate has been like joining the Grand Ole Opry and not being allowed to sing. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out how to gum up the works of a body of one hundred that operates mainly by unanimous consent. Here’s my view: It’s hard to get here, hard to stay here, and while you’re here, you ought to try to accomplish something good for the country. — PolitiTweet.org

Lamar Alexander @SenAlexander

Ending the filibuster would unleash the tyranny of the majority to steamroll the rights of the minority. — PolitiTweet.org