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" We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people. "
Evan Bayh
Situation
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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
Done
Father
Good
" In Indiana, we don't have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball. "
Evan Bayh
Religion
Indiana
Basketball
" 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
Parenting
Responsibility
Children
" 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
Reality
Commitment
Debate
" 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
Experience
Baseball
Fun
" 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. "
Evan Bayh
Remember
Why
People
" 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
Breakfast
Week
Lunch
" 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
Life
Doing
You
" 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. "
Evan Bayh
Devotion
Congress
New
" 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. "
Evan Bayh
Success
Lead
Party
" The only way Democrats can govern in this country is by making common cause with moderates and independents. "
Evan Bayh
Common
Democrats
Country
" 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
Free
Key
Leader
" We need leaders who appeal to us to think about something other than narrow self-interest but instead focus upon the greater good. "
Evan Bayh
Think
Us
Focus
" 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. "
Evan Bayh
Politics
Say
People
" Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons. "
Evan Bayh
Reasons
Within
Try
" 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
Doing
Choose
Patriotism
" 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
Rules
Vote
Two
" 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. "
Evan Bayh
Create
Congress
Business
" 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
Freedom
Commitment
Democracy
" 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
Day
Business
Questions
" We know that a college degree is rapidly becoming the price of admission to the global economy. "
Evan Bayh
Degree
Price
Economy
" 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
War
Win
Fighting
" Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to hold the line on spending. "
Evan Bayh
Tough
You
Decisions
" 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
Become
Politics
Election