There's no such thing as a partisan base.

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.

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

I love the classroom.

Go into the auto mechanic, you've got to know computers to be able to work on the cars.

There is no shelter in you anywhere.

There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

Compassionate conservatism [is] most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems.

If the manager really is the problem, try to get reassigned elsewhere in the organization or start looking for one in which you can play to your strengths.

We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.

There won't be a Palestinian state within Israel.

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.