Evan Bayh: “I am confident that he will bring that same devotion to consensus building and pragmatism to the Federal Government.”

We are paying a macroeconomic price for the delay in resolving this issue.

Our national security has not been harmed by the integration of the Armed Forces.

I believe is discriminatory. Times have changed since then and it seems to me we should respond to those changes, changes in the attitude of our people, the acceptance of gay and lesbian people in the workplace.

There's something fundamentally wrong about that. If we can pursue our Nation's security without putting them or us as a country institutionalizing hypocrisy, I think America is stronger, we are a more just and secure country.