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

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Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different thi... by Byron Dorgan

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

smart work two

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.

fairness believe country

I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are lower taxes, less government, strong defense and family values.

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People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat. by Byron Dorgan

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

priorities bird people

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.

constitution democracy earth

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.

debate country thinking

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.

law drinking country

We need leadership, and we need it now. by Byron Dorgan

We need leadership, and we need it now.

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You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibilit... by Byron Dorgan

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

delegation authority responsibility

The taxpayers deserve accountability. by Byron Dorgan

The taxpayers deserve accountability.

taxpayers accountability deserve

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

sugar creating towns

If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than t... by Byron Dorgan

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

preemption knows thinking

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.

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I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for. by Byron Dorgan

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

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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.

jobs country children

This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy. by Byron Dorgan

This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.

galloping ownership concentration

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

keys blow civilization

When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.

tough-times cutting government

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.

generations fighting war

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.

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