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Tim Kaine is a good man.
I've never stopped being a Hoosier.
Bob Corker's a very reasonable person.
Washington is totally out of touch with mainstream America.
I believe I would be a very strong general-election candidate.
No one ever built the filibuster rule. It just kind of was created.
The most important area for spending restraint is entitlement reform.
There's a high level of frustration with the two-party system out there.
Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to hold the line on spending.
The fastest-growing part of the Pentagon's budget are health care expenses.
I intend to continue to fight for the things I think are right for my country.
I find the world just too complex to embrace a single ideological point of view.
What matters is moving forward and focusing on practical results for the American people.
In Indiana, we don't have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball.
Any time a president is re-elected, he has a little more political clout to get things done.
We know that a college degree is rapidly becoming the price of admission to the global economy.
The United States depends on South Korea and Japan to help promote American values in East Asia.
Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too.
To regain our political footing, we must prove to moderates that Democrats can make tough choices.
Sometimes, when I come back to Washington from Indiana, I feel like an ambassador to a foreign country.
We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.
While romanticizing the Senate of yore would be a mistake, it was certainly better in my father's time.
If I could help educate our children at an institution for higher learning, that would be a noble thing.
As Democrats, we have a patriotic duty and political imperative to lay out our ideas for protecting America.
The only way Democrats can govern in this country is by making common cause with moderates and independents.
It shouldn't take a constitutional crisis or an attack on the nation to create honest dialogue in the Senate.
China's island-building in the South China Sea poses a threat to U.S. national security interests in the region.
I’m pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.
I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.
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.
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.
We need a foreign policy that is both tough... and smart. The good news? That is the historic legacy of the Democratic Party.
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.
I love working for the people of Indiana. I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress.
We need leaders who appeal to us to think about something other than narrow self-interest but instead focus upon the greater good.
I like a lot of my Republican colleagues, starting with my friend from Indiana, Senator Lugar. We've had an excellent relationship.
Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.
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.
I've had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress.
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.
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.
If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.
Massive debts owed to foreign creditors weaken our global influence and threaten high inflation and steep tax increases for our children and grandchildren.
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.
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.
We should be proud of liberating the 26 million people in Iraq and should remember that this is why it is important to stick it out to it's successful conclusion.
What we need to do is to come together as a people and solve the problems facing our country. And unfortunately, Washington is just not doing enough of that these days.
Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland... The time has come to be secure about our values. The time has come to lead.
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.
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.