Evan Bayh Quotes
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The fastest-growing part of the Pentagon's budget are health care expenses.
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I love working for the people of Indiana. I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress.
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In recent years, we have seen technology advance at lightning speed, allowing us to accomplish lifesaving feats never imagined before. It is our responsibility to ensure that these advances are used for positive medical breakthroughs, and not allowed to restrict rights or limit access to health insurance or job opportunities.
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We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.
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I’m pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.
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Sometimes, when I come back to Washington from Indiana, I feel like an ambassador to a foreign country.
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Sometimes making progress a step at a time is better than no progress at all.
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I'm a former governor, and so I was the chief executive, and when the legislature wasn't in session, I was running the state.
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Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland... The time has come to be secure about our values. The time has come to lead.
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My mother wrote a book. Unfortunately, it ended up being published posthumously. But I'm glad she did, because it taught me a lot about my family that, otherwise, I probably wouldn't know.
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To regain our political footing, we must prove to moderates that Democrats can make tough choices.
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The United States must not allow North Korea to exacerbate tensions between our key strategic allies in Asia. As the leader of the free world, the United States needs to support our regional allies who are standing up to a Stalinist regime that is intent on developing nuclear weapons.
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Those who obstruct the Senate should pay a price in public notoriety and physical exhaustion. That would lead to a significant decline in frivolous filibusters.
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The United States depends on South Korea and Japan to help promote American values in East Asia.
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Massive debts owed to foreign creditors weaken our global influence and threaten high inflation and steep tax increases for our children and grandchildren.
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Americans have always prized individuality - it is part of our national DNA - but America is a community that draws strength from the sum of our people and has always known that the total of that sum is worth far more than its individual parts.
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You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning.
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I've had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress.
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Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'
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Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60.
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You just hope that we haven't soured an entire generation on the necessity, from time to time, of using force because Iraq has been such a debacle. That would be tragic because Iran is a grave threat.
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Any time a president is re-elected, he has a little more political clout to get things done.
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While romanticizing the Senate of yore would be a mistake, it was certainly better in my father's time.
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A few decades ago, the Irish decided they were tired of being always near the bottom of Europe's economic indicators. So they envisioned a better future for their country, and they put their people on the right road to get there.