Zitat des Tages von Evan Bayh:
To regain our political footing, we must prove to moderates that Democrats can make tough choices.
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.
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.
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 intend to continue to fight for the things I think are right for my country.
The most important area for spending restraint is entitlement reform.
We need a foreign policy that is both tough... and smart. The good news? That is the historic legacy of the Democratic Party.
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.
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.'
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.
If I could help educate our children at an institution for higher learning, that would be a noble thing.
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.
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.
I've had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress.
We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.
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.
Tim Kaine is a good man.
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.
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.
Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too.
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.
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.
While romanticizing the Senate of yore would be a mistake, it was certainly better in my father's time.
In Indiana, we don't have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball.
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.
Bob Corker's a very reasonable person.
There's a high level of frustration with the two-party system out there.
I find the world just too complex to embrace a single ideological point of view.
I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.
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.
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.
Sometimes making progress a step at a time is better than no progress at all.
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.
We all have things in life we'd do over again.
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.
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.
