I love the classroom.

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 hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress.

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

Aleksar Greene was a boy I used to play with, he was my imaginary friend.

The last major childhood disease remains and it's the worst of them all: nuclear war.

There is a massive problem with veteran suicides.

The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]

People call to keep me abreast of what's going on.

And there's always a better time than right now and there always will be. But right now is what we've got.

If people are not smoking, they'll probably be drinking more.

In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

More important than starting any startup, is getting to know a lot of potential co-founders.