I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress.

I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.

While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.

There's no such thing as a partisan base.

I love the classroom.

I don’t have to be logical. I’m a leopard. We’re considered wild animals, you know.

I don't do politics. I just like to laugh.

Rapping is the only time I'm serious.

They [Mike Tyson and Todd Phillips] actually struck up a really pretty incredible chemistry, those two, and I think they really trusted each other.

If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.

Being at home with my family always inspires me. I find it hard to be inspired when I'm on the move. I'm not creative when I'm jet-lagged and sleeping in strange hotels.

Lying's a certain mark of cowardice.

On the third day in India, I realized people were not suffering as much as I thought.

...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.

I consider the decision of my colleagues and friends to be the best birthday present.