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Top 25 Byron Dorgan Quotes (2025 Update)

Byron Dorgan Quote: “You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.”

1. “You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.”

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Byron Dorgan Quote: “Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.”

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

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Byron Dorgan Quote: “One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle.”

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

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Byron Dorgan Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Byron Dorgan Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Byron Dorgan Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Byron Dorgan Quote: “Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.”

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

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Byron Dorgan Quote: “When farmers and ranchers are confronted by weather-related disasters that are beyond their control, we need to do something to help.”

8. “When farmers and ranchers are confronted by weather-related disasters that are beyond their control, we need to do something to help.”

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Byron Dorgan Quote: “People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.”

9. “People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.”

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Byron Dorgan Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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Byron Dorgan Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Byron Dorgan Quote: “I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.”

12. “I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.”

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Byron Dorgan Quote: “I don’t feel responsible for things I didn’t vote for.”

13. “I don’t feel responsible for things I didn’t vote for.”

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Byron Dorgan Quote: “The taxpayers deserve accountability.”

14. “The taxpayers deserve accountability.”

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Byron Dorgan Quote: “If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.”

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

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Byron Dorgan Quote: “President Eisenhower saw it coming, and it is here. Patriotism no longer exists among many of these corporations. Some companies have more economic clout than entire countries. They can make or break a politician.”

16. “President Eisenhower saw it coming, and it is here. Patriotism no longer exists among many of these corporations. Some companies have more economic clout than entire countries. They can make or break a politician.”

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Byron Dorgan Quote: “Is there decency left in American politics?”

17. “Is there decency left in American politics?”

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Byron Dorgan Quote: “We need leadership, and we need it now.”

18. “We need leadership, and we need it now.”

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Byron Dorgan Quote: “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.”

19. “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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Byron Dorgan Quote: “I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.”

20. “I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.”

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Byron Dorgan Quote: “When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.”

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

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Byron Dorgan Quote: “This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.”

22. “This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.”

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Byron Dorgan Quote: “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.”

23. “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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Byron Dorgan Quote: “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.”

24. “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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Byron Dorgan Quote: “When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country’s interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety.”

25. “When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country’s interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety.”

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