Evan Bayh Quotes

Tim Kaine has been obviously a governor. He's been a senator. He's one of the smartest rising stars in the Democratic Party. He is very plausible as someone who could sit in and be president.

I think Hillary Clinton is an outstandingly capable and decent person.

The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.

Jimmy Carter is the most intelligent. Jimmy Carter is a good man.

I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.

I do not think Adam [Clayton Powell] was an immoral man or a moral man. I think he was amoral. I think he was almost completely political.

Donald Trump is an interesting fellow.

Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad. The Nixon I remembered was absolutely humorless; I couldn't imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn't quite reach the lever on the voting machine.

Hillary Clinton is a person who has enormous - I have enormous respect for, has a very distinguished career.

I think Hillary Clinton is vastly intelligent and good-hearted and extremely qualified.

Herman Cain continues to show himself to be a leader.

I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.

Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.

People always try to separate the good from the bad in Clinton and say that, if he had not done certain things, he would have been a great president. But you can't do that. Those were his major characteristics.

Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?

I think that the presidency really brings out the best in a lot of people.

John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man.

Politics ruins the character.

Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.

I think Hillary Clinton is terrific.

Men say that I am a saint losing myself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to be a saint.

The Decalogue and the Golden Rule have no place in a political campaign. The commander who lost the battle through the activity of his moral nature would be the derision and jest of history.

There are a lot of smart people in politics and government, but character matters ... it is terribly important that the two be melded.