Tim Kaine is a good man.

The only way Democrats can govern in this country is by making common cause with moderates and independents.

It doesn't take a degree in economics to know that something is wrong when it takes $30 or $40 to fill up the gas tank.

I find the world just too complex to embrace a single ideological point of view.

We need a foreign policy that is both tough... and smart. The good news? That is the historic legacy of the Democratic Party.

You just hope that we haven't soured an entire generation on the necessity, from time to time, of using force because Iraq has been such a debacle. That would be tragic because Iran is a grave threat.

We shouldn't have someone working in the Oval Office trying to discredit and smear a private individual who's just speaking their mind about an important issue facing the country. That is not going to move our nation forward.

Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed.

Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too.

Massive debts owed to foreign creditors weaken our global influence and threaten high inflation and steep tax increases for our children and grandchildren.

Any time a president is re-elected, he has a little more political clout to get things done.

A few decades ago, the Irish decided they were tired of being always near the bottom of Europe's economic indicators. So they envisioned a better future for their country, and they put their people on the right road to get there.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.

Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland... The time has come to be secure about our values. The time has come to lead.

If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.

What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.

People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you.

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'

Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there.

I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.

The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America's publicly held debt. This dependence raises the specter that other nations will be able to influence our policies in ways antithetical to American interests.

I love working for the people of Indiana. I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress.

What we need to do is to come together as a people and solve the problems facing our country. And unfortunately, Washington is just not doing enough of that these days.

Hoosiers are very independent.

If I could help educate our children at an institution for higher learning, that would be a noble thing.

What matters is moving forward and focusing on practical results for the American people.

Bob Corker's a very reasonable person.

In Indiana, we don't have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball.

There's a high level of frustration with the two-party system out there.

I believe I would be a very strong general-election candidate.

Sometimes making progress a step at a time is better than no progress at all.

If, by demanding revolutionary change, I run the risk of accomplishing nothing on behalf of the public, then I'm not sure that's a responsible course of action.

Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to hold the line on spending.

Between being governor and part of the Senate, one of the things I did was I held a chair at the business school at my alma mater, Indiana University. And I'd go to lecture the graduates, and I loved that, answering their questions. It was real; it was tangible, and it was making a difference every day.

No one ever built the filibuster rule. It just kind of was created.

My father was on the Judiciary Committee all 18 years. He had a good personal relationship with Jim Eastland. They probably didn't agree on practically anything, or very little, from a public policy standpoint. But they were willing to work through that to see what they could get done just because they knew each other and liked each other.

Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.

Many good people serve in Congress. They are patriotic, hard-working, and devoted to the public good as they see it, but the institutional and cultural impediments to change frustrate the intentions of these well-meaning people as rarely before.

While romanticizing the Senate of yore would be a mistake, it was certainly better in my father's time.

My father, Birch Bayh, represented Indiana in the Senate from 1963 to 1981. A progressive, he nonetheless enjoyed many friendships with moderate Republicans and Southern Democrats.

Through our own hard work and ingenuity, America has spent much of its history as the world's dominant economic power. But our dominance is not pre-ordained - history does not roll along on the wheels of inevitability.

Americans have always prized individuality - it is part of our national DNA - but America is a community that draws strength from the sum of our people and has always known that the total of that sum is worth far more than its individual parts.

We need leaders who appeal to us to think about something other than narrow self-interest but instead focus upon the greater good.

As Democrats, we have a patriotic duty and political imperative to lay out our ideas for protecting America.

China's island-building in the South China Sea poses a threat to U.S. national security interests in the region.

The United States depends on South Korea and Japan to help promote American values in East Asia.

Sometimes, when I come back to Washington from Indiana, I feel like an ambassador to a foreign country.

I intend to continue to fight for the things I think are right for my country.