Evan Bayh Quotes

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Evan Bayh

Profession : Politician

Birth : December 26, 1955

The United States must not allow North Korea to exacerbate tensions between our key strategic allies in Asia. As the leader of the free world, the United States needs to support our regional allies who are standing up to a Stalinist regime that is intent on developing nuclear weapons.

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Sometimes, when I come back to Washington from Indiana, I feel like an ambassador to a foreign country.

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It doesn't take a degree in economics to know that something is wrong when it takes $30 or $40 to fill up the gas tank.

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I intend to continue to fight for the things I think are right for my country.

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I'm a former governor, and so I was the chief executive, and when the legislature wasn't in session, I was running the state.

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If you are the executive, you're probably going to have more of an impact than if you're one of a hundred members of the Senate, certainly one of 435 members of the House.

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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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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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Tim Kaine is a good man.

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I've never stopped being a Hoosier.

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Those who obstruct the Senate should pay a price in public notoriety and physical exhaustion. That would lead to a significant decline in frivolous filibusters.

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I care about family issues.

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My mother wrote a book. Unfortunately, it ended up being published posthumously. But I'm glad she did, because it taught me a lot about my family that, otherwise, I probably wouldn't know.

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We all have things in life we'd do over again.

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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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Massive debts owed to foreign creditors weaken our global influence and threaten high inflation and steep tax increases for our children and grandchildren.

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The fastest-growing part of the Pentagon's budget are health care expenses.

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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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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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To regain our political footing, we must prove to moderates that Democrats can make tough choices.

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