Evan Bayh Quotes
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Hoosiers are very independent.
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I've never stopped being a Hoosier.
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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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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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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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In Indiana, we don't have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball.
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Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to hold the line on spending.
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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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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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Washington is totally out of touch with mainstream America.
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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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I believe I would be a very strong general-election candidate.
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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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There's a high level of frustration with the two-party system out there.
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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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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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Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.
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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.