Byron Dorgan Quotes (83 Quotes)

Our soldiers are prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country, and we must do our part. And that means voting for the funds they need to finish the job.

Is there decency left in American politics?

This is not a very hospitable political environment to challenge the oil industry, ... We have a president and vice president who come from the oil industry and they're not interested in doing anything that runs counter to the interests of major integrated oil companies.

They also argued the Dorgan amendment would prevent the United States from negotiating improvements in its trade remedy laws. That's a lot of rubbish, ... They don't intend to negotiate improvements.

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

They just caved in to the president's demands and the American farmers will pay the price.

Complaints that the selection process was inadequate are significant and come from people in a position to know the facts, ... I think such an investigation is not only appropriate but very much needed.

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.

Most likely Congress will do little or nothing but talk a great deal and hold hearings,

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.

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.

I don't know whether Ken Lay is going to testify. What I do know is that his attorneys have told us that we should prepare for a hearing in which he will testify,

The credit goes to anybody and everybody who understood this was bad public policy,

The same folks who today defend high gasoline prices as the product of a free market said exactly the same thing about energy prices in the West when we now know ... Enron was manipulating the market at full throttle and reaping billions in profits.

They didn't have the stomach to take the White House on.

For the Fed to put its foot on the brakes to slow the economy down will hurt everyone in this country,

Retaliation against employees for providing information to Congress is illegal and entirely unacceptable.

Tomlinson's legacy at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a negative one, ... He has done far more harm to the CPB than good.

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.

Congress is going to slap on the penalties unless you and commissioner Selig do it first.

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.

One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle,

I think this Congress has to stand up for the interest of the American consumer, ... This is about as far from a free market as anything I know.

I think this is a seed bed for substantial growth and opportunities in our region,

I think it's appropriate at this point for Al Gore ... to give a speech tonight, to give a speech tonight that is a concession speech,

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

This partnership borrowed over 110 million from a Canadian bank and that showed up booked as income to the company immediately, ... They were doing almost no business, but they manufactured income from a bank loan under their operative statement. That's the kind of thing that went on over and over and over again, shrouded in secrecy.

Northwest is not a philanthropic organization - it has its own interests,

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.

This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest.

These are the kinds of companies that want all the benefits of American citizenship and all the benefits from doing business with the federal government, but they don't want to bare the burden of the responsibilities of paying taxes to our government,

The proposal is to have a presentation of the evidence by the House managers, have a presentation by the White House, and then have a vote to determine if these instances were born out by the facts, do they rise to the level of impeachment

We need leadership, and we need it now.