Top 86 Quotes & Sayings by Evan Bayh - Page 2

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.

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

I care about family issues.

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

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

The most important area for spending restraint is entitlement reform.

I like a lot of my Republican colleagues, starting with my friend from Indiana, Senator Lugar. We've had an excellent relationship.

I find the world just too complex to embrace a single ideological point of view.

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

Any time a president is re-elected, he has a little more political clout to get things done.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tim Kaine is a good man.

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.

I've never stopped being a Hoosier.

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.

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.

I’m pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.

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.