Byron Dorgan

Is there decency left in American politics?

— Byron Dorgan

The taxpayers deserve accountability.

— Byron Dorgan

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

— Byron Dorgan

We need leadership, and we need it now.

— Byron Dorgan

This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.

— Byron Dorgan

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

— Byron Dorgan

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

— Byron Dorgan

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

— 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…

— Byron Dorgan

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

— Byron Dorgan

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

— Byron Dorgan

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

— Byron Dorgan

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

— Byron Dorgan

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

— 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

As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come…

— Byron Dorgan

I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It…

— Byron Dorgan

There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone…

— Byron Dorgan

Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways.…

— Byron Dorgan

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be…

— Byron Dorgan

This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing,…

— Byron Dorgan

If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the…

— Byron Dorgan

All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a…

— Byron Dorgan

President Eisenhower saw it coming, and it is here. Patriotism no longer exists among many of these corporations. Some companies have more…

— Byron Dorgan

This country lacks the backbone and the spine and the will to demand fair trade and stand up for our products. If…

— Byron Dorgan

The gains we made in the United States that have made our country great have, in large part, been made over the…

— 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

The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more…

— 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…

— Byron Dorgan

I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are…

— Byron Dorgan