Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I have been honored for the past 18-plus years to serve alongside Senator Byron Dorgan, who is preparing to leave the Senate after three distinguished terms. Senator Dorgan has been one of the most plain-spoken, energetic, and formidable forces in the U.S. Senate, and I will sorely miss his voice. Some might, at first, see relatively little in common between more urban, industrialized Michigan and more rural, agricultural North Dakota. But Senator Dorgan and I saw eye-to-eye on issue after issue-- problems that needed to be tackled, outrages that needed to be exposed. One of those problems is tax abuse. Senator Dorgan has been one of the Senate's most stalwart and active opponents of tax cheats who rob the Treasury of billions of dollars each year, while unloading their tax burden onto the backs of honest taxpayers. He introduced legislation, commissioned key GAO reports, and fought long and hard against tax breaks that encourage U.S. companies to ship jobs offshore, set up factories in other countries, and use phony offshore companies to dodge taxes. I remember one floor fight last year in which he led a successful effort to stop legislation that would have opened the floodgates to billions of dollars that U.S. companies had hoarded offshore and wanted to bring back home without paying the same tax rate as their competitors.…”