Byron Dorgan
Byron Dorgan
Byron Leslie Dorganis a former United States Senator and United States Congressman from North Dakota and currently serves as a senior policy advisor for the Washington, DC law firm Arent Fox LLP. He served 12 years in the U.S. House and 18 years in the Senate. He was a member of the Senate Democratic leadership for 16 years, first as Assistant Democratic Floor Leader and then as Chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee and Chairman of the Committee on Indian...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 May 1942
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If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.
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I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.
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All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.
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One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle.
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This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.
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The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.
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You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.
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Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.
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We need leadership, and we need it now.
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I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.
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I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.
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We don't have a solution for Bismarck and Grand Forks, but we have the attention of the president of the company,
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We spin around the Sun with 6 billion of us and somehow through divine providence we landed right here right now.
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The price of oil is to the free market system like mud wrestling is to the performance arts,