Quotes from Evan Bayh

Any time a party has lost three consecutive elections, it becomes a bit more willing to explore the notion of principled compromise so it's able to pursue some of its objectives.

The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America's publicly held debt. This dependence raises the specter that other nations will be able to influence our policies in ways antithetical to American interests.

We know that a college degree is rapidly becoming the price of admission to the global economy.

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

I'm a former governor, and so I was the chief executive, and when the legislature wasn't in session, I was running the state.

Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed.

Every once in a while, an election comes along, and who you are and what you believe gets subsumed in a larger tide. It just happens.

Bob Corker's a very reasonable person.

I love my father, and I believe in him. And he lost to Dan Quayle. I had a hard time understanding how that could happen.

Tim Kaine is a good man.

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.

The most important area for spending restraint is entitlement reform.

To regain our political footing, we must prove to moderates that Democrats can make tough choices.

Sometimes, it takes leaving to gain some perspective. I see that clearly every time I leave Washington, D.C., and return to Indiana. I see the bizarre bubble that seems to enclose the Beltway and makes people forget what regular people care about.

We need a foreign policy that is both tough... and smart. The good news? That is the historic legacy of the Democratic Party.

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.

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 love working for the people of Indiana. I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress.

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.

Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed.

I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.

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.

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.

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.