Byron Dorgan Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

We need leadership, and we need it now.