Bud Herseth Quotes

#1. The challenge is to learn from those mistakes so we don't repeat them.

Debbie Macomber

#2. Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.

F.F. Bruce

#3. We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers ... We must do what we can to fix this problem.

Stephanie Herseth

#4. My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.

Stephanie Herseth

#5. Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#6. Lying in one's own way is almost better than telling the truth in someone else's way; in the first case you're a man, and in the second - no better than a bird!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.

Pete Maravich

#8. Before I had decided to get into politics, I was laying the groundwork to have a career in the law, but that was really to lay the foundation to teach, either at the college level or law school level after my federal clerkships.

Stephanie Herseth

#9. Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

Olivier Martinez

#10. I love the classroom.

Stephanie Herseth

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

Stephanie Herseth

#12. There's no such thing as a partisan base.

Stephanie Herseth

#13. I voted against the climate-change legislation. Not that I don't believe we should move to a clean-energy economy, and it can be good for South Dakota's economy to do so, but it was started out as a very partisan bill in the committee.

Stephanie Herseth

#14. I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don't even have clean drinking water.

Stephanie Herseth

#15. I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.

Stephanie Herseth

#16. Why would any innocent woman object to being identified?

Patrick Ness

#17. While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.

Stephanie Herseth

#18. I think that there was a lot of undisclosed money that came into South Dakota, driving a message to paint me as a Washington partisan, which I don't believe that I am, but it was a message that resonated, after pounding it away for a number of weeks.

Stephanie Herseth

#19. Melville, by his own account, spent four months in the valley. He was well treated. He made friends with a girl called Fayaway, swam and boated with her, and except for his fear of being eaten was happy enough.

W. Somerset Maugham

#20. I'm sure that they will continue to look for ways to try and undermine my support, but I have every confidence that in doing this job for South Dakota, I will continue to build on my support and be able to succeed once again in November.

Stephanie Herseth

#21. I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

Stephanie Herseth

#22. Great men honour intelligence, little men honour stupidity.

Mehmet Murat Ildan