Evan Bayh Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.
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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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No one ever built the filibuster rule. It just kind of was created.
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Washington is totally out of touch with mainstream America.
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I believe I would be a very strong general-election candidate.
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There's a high level of frustration with the two-party system out there.
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In Indiana, we don't have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball.
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I've never stopped being a Hoosier.
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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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If I could help educate our children at an institution for higher learning, that would be a noble thing.
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If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.
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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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I like a lot of my Republican colleagues, starting with my friend from Indiana, Senator Lugar. We've had an excellent relationship.
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Hoosiers are very independent.
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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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I intend to continue to fight for the things I think are right for my country.
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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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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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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.
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Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to hold the line on spending.