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Quotes by Byron Dorgan

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.
– Byron Dorgan
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.
– Byron Dorgan
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.
– Byron Dorgan
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.
– Byron Dorgan
I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.
– Byron Dorgan
I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.
– Byron Dorgan
If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.
– Byron Dorgan
If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.
– Byron Dorgan
In fact, not only did NAFTA fail to create U.S. jobs, it lost them. Increased trade deficits with our NAFTA trading partners (Mexico and Canada) have so far cost the United States 377,000 jobs - approximately the number of new U.S. jobs its backers promised NAFTA would create.
– Byron Dorgan
Is there decency left in American politics?
– Byron Dorgan
Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do.
– Byron Dorgan
Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.
– Byron Dorgan
People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.
– Byron Dorgan
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.
– Byron Dorgan
The taxpayers deserve accountability.
– Byron Dorgan
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.
– Byron Dorgan
There is no evidence that we ever get tough with anybody, no matter the circumstances, because most of our trade policy is mushy-headed, foreign policy rather than sound, sensible economic policy.
– Byron Dorgan
There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.
– Byron Dorgan
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.
– Byron Dorgan
This country lacks the backbone and the spine and the will to demand fair trade and stand up for our products. If our producers can't compete, shame on us. Then we lose. But requiring our producers to compete when the game is rigged, saying our producers ought to compete, when foreign markets are closed to us, is fundamentally wrong.
– Byron Dorgan
This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest.
– Byron Dorgan
This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.
– Byron Dorgan
We have a constitutional responsibility to use our heads, our hearts and our minds to make good decisions about the future of this country.
– Byron Dorgan
We need leadership, and we need it now.
– Byron Dorgan
We spin around the Sun with 6 billion of us and somehow through divine providence we landed right here right now.
– Byron Dorgan
When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.
– Byron Dorgan
When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety.
– Byron Dorgan
Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.
– Byron Dorgan
You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.
– Byron Dorgan