Mark Norris Quotations

Since you became governor, more than $217 million generated from user fees for transportation have been diverted for other state needs which you have addressed,

People are forgetting he took us through some pretty rocky times,

I think they probably should have done something about possibly helping find another area for a racetrack rather than just saying, 'See you later,' 

We can race somewhere else a lot easier than they can watch somewhere else.

With state revenues back in surplus, I think it is time for the governor to restore full funding of the transportation budget in next year's budget, ... Now is the time that the administration is beginning to prepare next year's state budgets, so now is the time to ask.

It was an event. It was a spectacle. You can't imagine what it was like.

As people get more and more entrenched in government less people are likely to tell him the truth.

According to the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations on which I have served during the period in question, the largest increase in need during this time, from $8.3 billion to $9.1 billion, has been in transportation and utilities. Transportation needs alone represent $8.1 billion (about 38 percent) of Tennessee's total infrastructure needs.

It's a tough night, yet the people of this party have always spoken very loudly. They are speaking tonight and we are going to have to listen to that. You can't run from the circumstances.

If we think it will further the purpose of considering and drafting remedial legislation as we move forward, then it's appropriate.

In order to know what best to do from a legal standpoint, we need to understand the mechanisms of fraud and criminality that are at work. What makes these folks tick and how can they get away with this in the current scheme of things.

I'll never be able to walk straight, I'm in pain 24 hours a day because of that racetrack and I still love it.

The exception swallows the rule right now and makes the statute very confusing and convoluted.