The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.

There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

Being a happy warrior, you also have a lot of fun in what you do because you believe in what you're doing.

If Newt Gingrich would be President tomorrow, I would be a happy person.

Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.

Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.

...one is reminded that [John Kerry, D-MA] really just a better-looking Ted Kennedy, a richer Michael Dukakis.

The American movement, Tea Party, whatever you want to call it, I think that is a very hopeful moment for the country and, I know, we really are the community organizers, are we not?

God is light. God is life.

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

Faith goes beyond reason. It goes beyond what you can see. But it is as real as anything you can touch or feel.

I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!

As God is my witness, he is broken in half!

The great thing about the dead, they make space.

Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation

I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.

I think music all the time.

Everything that is contradictory creates life