Evan Bayh
Evan Bayh
Birch Evans "Evan" Bayh IIIis an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as the junior U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1999 to 2011. He earlier served as the 46th Governor of Indiana from 1989 to 1997...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 December 1955
CountryUnited States of America
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If the intelligence ends up being wrong, we need to get to the bottom of why and also there will be more skepticism in the U.S. and the world.
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I think this is a good day for democracy in Iraq and am proud of the American soldiers without whom this would not have been possible, but it's not the end of the process. We have a long and difficult road ahead of us and I think we're going to need the kind of leaders that understand the complexities in Iraq to be successful.
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It shouldn't take a natural disaster to remind us of the importance of service. It's something that we need to incorporate in our daily lives, as a part of our priorities of how we should live our lives.
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Many Americans wonder if we're willing to use force to defend the country even under the most compelling of circumstances, ... The majority of Democrats would answer that question that, yes, there is a right place and a right time. We don't get to have that discussion because many people don't think we have the backbone.
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You may see some fine-tuning of the president's program to make it more effective, to actually get more bang for the buck. But I think you'll see broad bipartisan support for targeting tax cuts and investment incentives and aid to the states and unemployed, to kind of provide us an insurance policy to get job creation moving.
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If he focuses only on low-income people, then there are a lot of middle class folks struggling to pay their prescription benefit.
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This should have been on par with meeting the challenge of Sputnik or putting a man on the moon,
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We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.
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I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.
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Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too.
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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.
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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.'
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We can do better than the false bravado of 'bring 'em on' remember that? We can do better than the illusion of 'mission accomplished,'
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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.