Evan Bayh Quotes
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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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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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To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th.
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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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I find the world just too complex to embrace a single ideological point of view.
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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.
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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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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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We know that a college degree is rapidly becoming the price of admission to the global economy.
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The most important area for spending restraint is entitlement reform.
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No one ever built the filibuster rule. It just kind of was created.
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We need leaders who appeal to us to think about something other than narrow self-interest but instead focus upon the greater good.
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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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If you are the executive, you're probably going to have more of an impact than if you're one of a hundred members of the Senate, certainly one of 435 members of the House.
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My father was on the Judiciary Committee all 18 years. He had a good personal relationship with Jim Eastland. They probably didn't agree on practically anything, or very little, from a public policy standpoint. But they were willing to work through that to see what they could get done just because they knew each other and liked each other.
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The only way Democrats can govern in this country is by making common cause with moderates and independents.
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America is stronger than ever. We will forever remember those we lost on September 11, 2001. In honoring their memory, we will remain true to our commitment to freedom and democracy.
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Many good people serve in Congress. They are patriotic, hard-working, and devoted to the public good as they see it, but the institutional and cultural impediments to change frustrate the intentions of these well-meaning people as rarely before.
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As Democrats, we have a patriotic duty and political imperative to lay out our ideas for protecting America.
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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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If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.
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Washington is totally out of touch with mainstream America.
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China's island-building in the South China Sea poses a threat to U.S. national security interests in the region.
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As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.