Quotes by Evan Bayh - Page 2

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.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Compromise
Consecutive
Notion
Objectives
Principled
Pursue
Explore
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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.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Indiana
Progressive
Senate
Southern
Birch
Democrats
Republicans
Friendships
Moderate
Nonetheless
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America is stronger than ever. We will forever remember those we lost on September 11, 2001. In honoring their memory, we will remain true to our commitment to freedom and democracy.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Commitment
Forever
September
Stronger
Honoring
Memory
Remain
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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.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Glad
Family Me Know
Unfortunately
Published
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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.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Senate
Supreme
Supreme Court
Believe People Anything
Answering
Anything Else
Governor
United States Senate
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You just hope that we haven't soured an entire generation on the necessity, from time to time, of using force because Iraq has been such a debacle. That would be tragic because Iran is a grave threat.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Force
Iran
Threat
Tragic
Necessity
Entire
From Time To Time
Generation
Grave
Using
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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.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Carbon
Emissions
Silver
Bullet
Policymakers
Reduce
Solution
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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.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
America
Challenges
Congress
Deficit
Energy
Health Care
Historic
Fail
Imperative
Import
Legislative
Reformed
Threaten
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Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Commitment
Debate
Filibuster
Numbers
Reality
Senators
Theory
Overcome
Continually
Reduced
Require
Votes
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To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Friends
War
Fighting
Foreign Policy
Hiding
Policy
September
September 11th
Terror
War Terrorism Fighting
Enemies
Foreign
Using
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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.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Dominance
Economic Power
Hard Work
Inevitability
Ingenuity
Wheels
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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.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Affordable
Dollars
Middle Class
Thousand
Tuition
Cared
Senator
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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.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Parenting
Children
Heroic
Impact
Mother
Responsibility
Single Mom
Well Being
Efforts
Mothers
Raise
Recognize
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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.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Cutting
Eight
Indiana
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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.'
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Balanced
Budgets
Eight
Indiana
Raised
Surplus
Cuts
Deferred
Governor
Initiatives
Largest
Occasionally
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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.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Discredit
Office
Oval
Facing
Important Issue
Issue
Oval Office
Private
Smear
Speaking
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A few decades ago, the Irish decided they were tired of being always near the bottom of Europe's economic indicators. So they envisioned a better future for their country, and they put their people on the right road to get there.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Better Future
Bottom
Decades
Right Road
Tired
Envisioned
Near
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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.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Dna
Draws
Individuality
Total
Our People
Prized
Sum
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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.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Devoted
Good People
Patriotic
Public Good
Change Good People
Cultural
Frustrate
Hard-Working
Impediment
Institutional
Intentions
Rarely
Well-Meaning
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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.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Bizarre
Indiana
Leaving
Perspective
Return
Time People Care
Bubble
Enclose
Gain
Time Care People
Regular
Regular People
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My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Election
Permanent
Versus
Campaign
Senator
Frequently
Meeting
Next Election
Tribal
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Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Patriotism
Circumstances
Country
Expected
Financial
Military
Should Have
Tours
Due
Dire
Facing
Families
Penalized
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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.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Allies
Asia
Developing
Free World
Leader
Needs
North Korea
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Standing
States
Strategic
Support
United States
Weapons
Free
Between
Exacerbate
Intent
North
Regime
Standing Up
Tensions
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People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Applause
Ego
Gratification
People
Public Life
Thinking
Different Reasons
Straight
None
Reasons
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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.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Sports
Baseball
Citizens
Congress
Country
Deeper
Elected Officials
Founding
Historical
Letterman
Officials
Pastime
Roots
Tradition
Age-Old
American Experience
David
Ben
David Letterman
Elected
National Pastime
Swing
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The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America's publicly held debt. This dependence raises the specter that other nations will be able to influence our policies in ways antithetical to American interests.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
America
Amount
China
Country
Debt
Dependence
Historic
Influence
Investors
Japan
Nations
Raises
American Interests
Countries
Foreign
Held
Holding
Interests
Policies
Publicly
Specter
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Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Determined
Filibuster
Jimmy
Jimmy Stewart
Just One
Mere
Senate
Threat
Today
Two
Vote
Rules
Asked
Mr
Washington
Current
Goes
One Or Two
Pull
Rarely
Smith
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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.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Business School
Graduates
Indiana
Making A Difference
Senate
Tangible
University
Answering
Business Day Every Day
Loved
Chair
Difference
Every Day
Governor
Held
Lecture
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Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Congress
Genesis
Long
Mirrors
People
Representatives
Ultimate
Voters
Good Mirror Look
Washington
Portion
Reflect
Require
Reside
Sent
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You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Running
Home
Breakfast
Campaigning
Cost
Dinner
Driven
Fundraising
Lunch
Senate
Uncommon
Years
Go Home
Member
Never Stop
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In recent years, we have seen technology advance at lightning speed, allowing us to accomplish lifesaving feats never imagined before. It is our responsibility to ensure that these advances are used for positive medical breakthroughs, and not allowed to restrict rights or limit access to health insurance or job opportunities.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Jobs
Technology
Responsibility
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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.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Relationship
Agree
Done
Judiciary
Policy
Public Policy
Standpoint
Willing
Years
Work Good Done
Work Good Relationship
Committee
Public
Liked
Each
Practically
Jim
Judiciary Committee
Personal
Personal Relationship
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