Evan Bayh Quotes
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What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.
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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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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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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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The most important area for spending restraint is entitlement reform.
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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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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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My father, Birch Bayh, represented Indiana in the Senate from 1963 to 1981. A progressive, he nonetheless enjoyed many friendships with moderate Republicans and Southern Democrats.
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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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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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We know that a college degree is rapidly becoming the price of admission to the global economy.
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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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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 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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The only way Democrats can govern in this country is by making common cause with moderates and independents.
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No one ever built the filibuster rule. It just kind of was created.
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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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As Democrats, we have a patriotic duty and political imperative to lay out our ideas for protecting 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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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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As with any difficult challenge that the public and policymakers face, there is no single solution or silver bullet that will serve as the answer to how the United States works to reduce carbon emissions.
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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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Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed.