70 Quotes by Tim Pawlenty

I think we are doing the prescription medicine equivalent of the Boston Tea Party.

Our people are working. Our students are learning. And our citizens are healthy.

Our country has been asleep at the switch on these things. The basic economics are that the supply of fossil fuels is limited and the demand is outstripping the supply. It's a recipe for continued crisis if we don't start changing our ways.

We anticipate it won't just be the mayors, ... but it'll be church leaders and faith leaders and non-profit leaders who will come forward from these communities and will help and assist with the effort. But the contact point and encouragement is initially going to come on a city level and the mayors that we've identified will help coordinate that.

The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen.

We would not have the country that we have without people in the United States Military like those who are standing before us.

We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government that is out of control. We have to take back this country and we've got to get off the sidelines and take it to President Obama.

Today, Minnesota takes another step toward reducing our dependence on foreign oil while improving our environment and our rural economy,

We just try to have fun and we go on some rides, eat a lot of food and meet with people, ... And almost without exception, people at the fair are in a good mood. They can agree or disagree with you, but Minnesotans by and large are pretty good-natured people, so even if they disagree, they do it in a good-natured way, and so it's a fun experience.