Zach Wamp Quotes

• I really believe deep in my soul that we’re going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.

  Zach Wamp

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Unify

• There is no accountability in soft money. None.

  Zach Wamp

  Tags in Soft, Accountability

• I used to be in the real estate business, and I have three areas of interest: Chickamauga Lock, Chickamauga Lock, and Chickamauga Lock.

  Zach Wamp

  Tags in Real Estate, Lock

• We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.

  Zach Wamp

  Tags in Era

• We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number.

  Zach Wamp

  Tags in Sticker, Shock, Billion

• With only 2 percent of the world’s proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.

  Zach Wamp

  Tags in Sources, Reserves, Pump

• The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.

  Zach Wamp

  Tags in Political, Restraint, Pro-Growth

• Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.

  Zach Wamp

  Tags in Prevail, Common Sense, Debate

• We can not underestimate the potential harm North Korea’s capabilities can cause for the rest of the world.

  Zach Wamp

  Tags in Harm, Underestimate

• That was one of the great successes of removing Saddam Hussein, as we took Iraq out of the picture of having a sovereign nation from which the terrorists could operate. But this war has not gone perfectly.

  Zach Wamp

  Tags in Political

• Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel.

  Zach Wamp

  Tags in Palestine, Hamas

• I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes.

  Zach Wamp

  Tags in Political, Demonstrated, Trail

• In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him.

  Zach Wamp

  Tags in Thank, Political

• Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

  Zach Wamp

  Tags in Political, Good Intentions, Prominent, Hull

• But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their own charter and definition, the destruction of Israel and Christians. That is the truth. That is in their charter.

  Zach Wamp

  Tags in Charter, Threatens

• Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.

  Zach Wamp

  Tags in Costs, Stretched

• For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.

  Zach Wamp

  Tags in Twenty, Attacking

Zach Wamp (37)

Birth:	28th October, 1957
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Broker, Politician

About

Zachary Paul "Zach" Wamp is the former U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 3rd congressional district, serving from 1995 to 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district is based in Chattanooga and includes large parts of East Tennessee, including Oak Ridge.
Wamp was born in Fort Benning, Georgia and grew up in East Ridge, Tennessee, a community adjacent to Chattanooga, where his father worked as an architect. He attended The Lutheran School, a Lutheran elementary school. Later, with his two brothers, he attended the McCallie School, a boy's boarding and day school in Chattanooga, as a day student, from the age of 11 until he graduated in 1976. He was president of the student council, active in athletics and was the MVP of the varsity basketball team at McCallie in 1976. He was baptized, raised and confirmed in the Lutheran Church. He spent his first freshman year at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1977–78 and briefly returned in 1979–80 after his sophomore year at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville between (1978–79). However, he graduated from neither and struggled with drug and alcohol problems as a student before ultimately dropping out of college.
After leaving college, Wamp was a national sales supervisor for Olan Mills, a photography company based in Chattanooga that primarily produces church directories, and later a commercial and industrial real estate broker. He worked in his family's architectural and development business and became vice president of Charter Real Estate Corporation in 1989. In 1992, he joined Fletcher Bright Co. in Chattanooga as a commercial and industrial real estate broker.
He began his career in politics as precinct vice chairman for the 1983 Chattanooga mayoral campaign of Gene Roberts. He was later elected chairman of the Hamilton County, Tennessee Republican Party, then regional director for the state GOP

Related Authors

• Pat Garrett
• Zach Wamp
• Leigh Steinberg

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 23rd November

Births

• 1955 - Mary Landrieu
• 1773 - Lord Jeffrey
• 1955 - Steven Brust
• 1970 - Oded Fehr
• 1934 - Robert Towne

Deaths

• 1992 - Roy Acuff
• 1973 - Sessue Hayakawa
• 1821 - Sir James Mansfield
• 1991 - Klaus Kinski
• 1990 - Roald Dahl