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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We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.
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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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Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there.
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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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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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Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too.
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Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.
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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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Sometimes making progress a step at a time is better than no progress at all.
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To regain our political footing, we must prove to moderates that Democrats can make tough choices.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We shouldn't have someone working in the Oval Office trying to discredit and smear a private individual who's just speaking their mind about an important issue facing the country. That is not going to move our nation forward.
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I find the world just too complex to embrace a single ideological point of view.
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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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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.
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It doesn't take a degree in economics to know that something is wrong when it takes $30 or $40 to fill up the gas tank.