Byron Dorgan
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"Byron Leslie Dorgan" is a former United States Senate/United States Senator from North Dakota and is now a senior policy advisor for a Washington, DC law firm. He is a member of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party, the North Dakota affiliate of the Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic Party. In the Senate, he was Chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee Chairman of the United States Senate/Democratic Policy Committee and Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs/Committee on Indian Affairs. Dorgan announced on January 5, 2010 that he would not seek re-election in the United States Senate election in North Dakota, 2010/2010 North Dakota senate election, and he was succeeded by North Dakota Governor John Hoeven. Dorgan is now co-chair of Government Relations Practice for the Washington, DC law firm Arent Fox. He also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center, where he focuses on issues related to energy policy. Dorgan is also a co-chair of BPC's Energy Project.

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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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We're trying to get through all of this, to understand it, ... Northwest has been a good carrier for North Dakota for many decades, but they are dominant in our state, and so changes they make can have a profound impact on North Dakota and its economy.

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We need leadership, and we need it now.

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

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You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

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I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.

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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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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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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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