Evan Bayh Quotes
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My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.
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Sometimes, it takes leaving to gain some perspective. I see that clearly every time I leave Washington, D.C., and return to Indiana. I see the bizarre bubble that seems to enclose the Beltway and makes people forget what regular people care about.
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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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No one ever built the filibuster rule. It just kind of was created.
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If I could help educate our children at an institution for higher learning, that would be a noble thing.
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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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We need a foreign policy that is both tough... and smart. The good news? That is the historic legacy of the Democratic Party.
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Ultimately, the American people ourselves need to decide we care more about practical solutions and progress than we do about brain-dead ideology and political wrangling.
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Through our own hard work and ingenuity, America has spent much of its history as the world's dominant economic power. But our dominance is not pre-ordained - history does not roll along on the wheels of inevitability.
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Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to hold the line on spending.
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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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Bob Corker's a very reasonable person.
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I've never stopped being a Hoosier.
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Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too.
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Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.
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What matters is moving forward and focusing on practical results for the American people.
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I love my father, and I believe in him. And he lost to Dan Quayle. I had a hard time understanding how that could happen.
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Washington is totally out of touch with mainstream America.
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I've always cared about education, and I worked with Senator Schumer on making several thousand dollars of college tuition tax deductible. That will help a lot of your middle class families make college more affordable.
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It shouldn't take a constitutional crisis or an attack on the nation to create honest dialogue in the Senate.
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Any time a party has lost three consecutive elections, it becomes a bit more willing to explore the notion of principled compromise so it's able to pursue some of its objectives.
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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.
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You wouldn't run for the United States Senate or for governor or for anything else without answering people's questions about what you believe. And I think the Supreme Court is no different.
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Every once in a while, an election comes along, and who you are and what you believe gets subsumed in a larger tide. It just happens.