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States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.

The voters reward good performance. So, I'm going to go out and focus, if I become the governor, to do the very best job I can as governor. The rest of it will take care of itself.

It's important for whoever is governor to be somebody with a breadth of experience in life, in business, and in service.

My job as governor is different from the legislators. They represent their districts. I have to represent all 6.6 million Tennesseans and come to the best decisions I can.

That's a large part of the job as governor: to create and maintain the optimal balance.

I see a future where states compete with one another to see which can be the most efficient, and where businesses seek out efficient states in which to locate so they can reap the economic and environmental benefits for their businesses and employees.

The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.

For most governors, we find the United States Senate or the United States Congress very frustrating at the slow pace in which they act. There doesn't seem to be a lot of discipline and organization to what they do.

I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do.

Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.