I tell people it's like shopping for a car.People are taking candidates out for a test drive, seeing what they like.

I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now.

Social Security is an extremely complicated program.

I don't happen to subscribe to the notion that everybody who criticizes Tom Daschle is criticizing Tim Johnson. I think that's a bit of a stretch.

I say to my colleague from New York that if someone who has a concealed carry permit... in the State of South Dakota that goes to New York and is in Central Park - Central Park is a much safer place.

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

The Obama experiment has failed.

But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not.

I think the thing with Medicare - and a lot of this - I should say, with Medicaid - and this is going to depend - states are going to be in a position to have a lot of flexibility.

Creating abundance must start from within ourselves.

What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.

You are the grand estate and administrator of — now.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

Ronald Reagan's attack on people who receive public assistance was partially an attack on people of color.

And no kinds of love are better than others

I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done. It's not where you've been but where you're going.

It scares me when the Europeans demand more and more democracy. It sounds like times past, when people here demanded more and more socialism.

In general, the problem in a relationship is when the couple stagnate.

One of the ways we communicate that we can be trusted is in the way we care for other people.