John Thune
John Thune
John Randolph Thuneis the senior United States Senator from South Dakota and a member of the Republican Party. He previously served as a United States Representative for South Dakota's at-large congressional district. He became South Dakota's Senior senator with the retirement of Tim Johnson in 2015...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth25 December 1961
CountryUnited States of America
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Funding our rural schools is very important, but it would be inappropriate to do so by selling parts of the Black Hills.
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I am echoing what I hear people say in South Dakota about their senator and as they travel around the country having to deal with the chief obstructionist label. And I believe that is embarrassing to South Dakota,
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I believe this election, like the one two years ago, is going to be decided by a handful of votes,
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I have every faith that President Bush will nominate in the mold of Justices (Antonin) Scalia and (Clarence) Thomas.
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my hope would be that the president will allow the process to work.
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Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.
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We are spending more as a percentage of our entire economy, almost 25 percent, than we have spent at any time since the end of World War II.
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President Obama likes to talk about winning the future. But someone needs to tell him: You can't win the prosperity of tomorrow if you're mortgaging it to pay for the big government programs of today.
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Like a lot of people, I'm interested in public service and want to do as much as I can to change the direction of this country and will give some consideration to that after midterm elections.
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The closest I've come to being on a reality TV show is C-SPAN's live coverage of the Senate floor.
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Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, although they're not officially debt of the federal government, they are off-balance-sheet debt.
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I think the problem with President Obama - and I like him personally, I came into the Senate with him - is his agenda.
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Chuck Swindoll is somebody who I've read a lot over the years and have used his curriculum when I've taught Sunday school classes.
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I think that if Republicans are given the reins of leadership in the House or Senate or both, we will have to govern in a way - at least put forward solutions whether or not the president goes along with them or not, that deal with these long-term challenges.