Evan Bayh Quotes

The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times.

The president is the government.

The job of every president is to ride herd over Congress.

The campaign is over. It's time for the work of governing to begin.

As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda.

The president of the United States is a commander-in-chief, and the president of the United States, you know, executes the laws and tries to motivate the American public to make changes that are necessary. It's not necessarily a CEO type of position.

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do.

Being a cabinet minister is not like running a company. A country is not a company.

For more than 500 years -- since the rise of nation-states and parliaments -- a preoccupation of Western political thought has been the problem of defining and confining executive power.

The president is the only one we have to make decisions. We have no one else.

When I embarked in the government, it was with a determination to intermeddle not at all with the legislature.

The President sets the policies and Congress does not. Our lawmakers in Washington ratify and implement what the President wants, but if he is a strong leader and can hold his own party together, even with the majority of the opposition against him he usually can win over enough members of Congress to carry what legislation he really feels is essential.

There is no such thing as a just and fair method of exercising the tremendous power that interventionism puts into the hands of the legislature and the executive.

That’s what you do when you are Governor. You don’t necessarily agree with every law you are called upon to enforce.

The president has to govern.

If you're in Congress, you vote and give speeches. But governors have to make decisions every day, and presidents have to make decisions every day.

One must realise that it is not a child's play to run a government.

My job as governor is different from the legislators. They represent their districts. I have to represent all 6.6 million Tennesseans and come to the best decisions I can.

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.

And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

Luckily, I'm a governor - so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.

The President is the people's lobbyist.

It's easier to run for office than to run the office.