Evan Bayh Quotes

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Evan Bayh

Profession : Politician

Birth : December 26, 1955

Washington is totally out of touch with mainstream America.

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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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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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Sometimes making progress a step at a time is better than no progress at all.

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If, by demanding revolutionary change, I run the risk of accomplishing nothing on behalf of the public, then I'm not sure that's a responsible course of action.

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Between being governor and part of the Senate, one of the things I did was I held a chair at the business school at my alma mater, Indiana University. And I'd go to lecture the graduates, and I loved that, answering their questions. It was real; it was tangible, and it was making a difference every day.

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No one ever built the filibuster rule. It just kind of was created.

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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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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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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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While romanticizing the Senate of yore would be a mistake, it was certainly better in my father's time.

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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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It shouldn't take a constitutional crisis or an attack on the nation to create honest dialogue in the Senate.

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Americans have always prized individuality - it is part of our national DNA - but America is a community that draws strength from the sum of our people and has always known that the total of that sum is worth far more than its individual parts.

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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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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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As Democrats, we have a patriotic duty and political imperative to lay out our ideas for protecting America.

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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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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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The United States depends on South Korea and Japan to help promote American values in East Asia.

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