27 Quotes by Stephanie Herseth

local partisanship in Congress was unbelievable; and let their be no doubt both parties were responsible for it.

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

I was particularly pleased to hear the chairman recognize the economic impact on the community was exacerbated by the rural installation Ellsworth is.

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

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

Families, businesses, school districts and farmers across South Dakota are feeling the effects of high fuel prices, and with our cold months closing in on us fast - and projections of a 70% increase in the price of natural gas - all South Dakotans may experience a significant impact on their budgets.

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.

There's no such thing as a partisan base.

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.