145 Quotes by Evan Bayh

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

No one ever built the filibuster rule. It just kind of was created.

If you are the executive, you're probably going to have more of an impact than if you're one of a hundred members of the Senate, certainly one of 435 members of the House.

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.

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

Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.

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

While romanticizing the Senate of yore would be a mistake, it was certainly better in my father's time.

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