Byron Dorgan Quotes

This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

When farmers and ranchers are confronted by weather-related disasters that are beyond their control, we need to do something to help.

When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.

The taxpayers deserve accountability.

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.

If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.

This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.

As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it.

Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.

We need leadership, and we need it now.

I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.

Is there decency left in American politics?

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.

I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are lower taxes, less government, strong defense and family values.

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.

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.