Evan Bayh Quotes
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No one ever built the filibuster rule. It just kind of was created.
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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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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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If I could help educate our children at an institution for higher learning, that would be a noble thing.
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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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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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I believe I would be a very strong general-election candidate.
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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.
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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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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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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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There's a high level of frustration with the two-party system out there.
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What matters is moving forward and focusing on practical results for the American people.
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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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Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to hold the line on spending.
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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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I've never stopped being a Hoosier.
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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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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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It shouldn't take a constitutional crisis or an attack on the nation to create honest dialogue in the Senate.
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Bob Corker's a very reasonable person.
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I intend to continue to fight for the things I think are right for my country.
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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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Washington is totally out of touch with mainstream America.