It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be.

It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be.

You've got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We'll see how it all shakes out.

President Bush has said that the ecomnomy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.

On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.

People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care.

Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included.

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

We must correct the problems and inequities in the way we conduct and decide elections in the United States.

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.

Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

The campaign is over. It's time for the work of governing to begin.

It would be nice if we could clear up the nominations that are still out there, and there are a lot of them.

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget.

Let there be no doubt: the state of our union is strong - stronger than the terrorists who seek to harm us and stronger than the challenges that confront us. At the same time, we know that our union can be stronger still.

We must govern from the middle, or we will not be able to govern at all.

Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.

It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be.

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.

The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.

Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included.

Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

I believe if we introduced the Lord's Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it.

Let's cause some senators distress.

Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined.

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.

What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?

It's important right now to continue to have your patients contact their senators and their congresspeople to say we have a problem. We want you to help solve it, we want you to be involved.

'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty."

I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!