145 Quotes by Evan Bayh

My father, Birch Bayh, represented Indiana in the Senate from 1963 to 1981. A progressive, he nonetheless enjoyed many friendships with moderate Republicans and Southern Democrats.

What matters is moving forward and focusing on practical results for the American people.

It shouldn't take a constitutional crisis or an attack on the nation to create honest dialogue in the Senate.

A few decades ago, the Irish decided they were tired of being always near the bottom of Europe's economic indicators. So they envisioned a better future for their country, and they put their people on the right road to get there.

I care about family issues.

Sometimes, when I come back to Washington from Indiana, I feel like an ambassador to a foreign country.

Americans have always prized individuality - it is part of our national DNA - but America is a community that draws strength from the sum of our people and has always known that the total of that sum is worth far more than its individual parts.

I've always cared about education, and I worked with Senator Schumer on making several thousand dollars of college tuition tax deductible. That will help a lot of your middle class families make college more affordable.

We need leaders who appeal to us to think about something other than narrow self-interest but instead focus upon the greater good.