Evan Bayh Quotes
I intend to continue to fight for the things I think are right for my country.
Bayh, Evan. "Remarks on Retiring from the Senate." 15 Feb. 2010, Indianapolis, IN. Speech.
Ataturk was a young major at the time commanding troops of a weak and corrupt Ottoman regime. However a combined English and French (the strongest military powers in Europe) invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula threatened to capture the Turkish capital, Constantinople. Ataturk alone rallied the Turkish defenders and fought the invaders to a standoff in long drawn out battle with huge casualties on both sides. Ataturk became a national hero. Although Ataturk thereafter was very reluctant to use military force or endanger troops, the thing he always thought worth the supreme sacrifice (including his own) was the independence and sovereignty of the nation. See {584502} for his continuing belief in this type of sacrifice.
In 1999 4 pro-reform newspapers were ordered closed by the Iranian government. Neshat, had been shut down for, among other things, “insulting Islam.” The publishers reopened the newspaper under a different name but felt constrained to make a statement of purpose and loyalty.
Under his and Pol Pot’s command, the Khmer Rouge exterminated nearly 2 million Cambodians. He was the number two often referred to as “Brother Number two.” In a 1998 corrupt bargain, the government agreed never to prosecute him for genocide or any of his crimes.
Birch Evans Bayh III is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1999 to 2011 and the 46th Governor of Indiana from 1989 to 1997.
