“Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate befor...” — John Thune Quote

“Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.”

“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.”

“I think the problem with President Obama - and I like him personally, I came into the Senate with him - is his agenda.”

“Social Security is an extremely complicated program.”

“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.”

“I'm a big, big reader of pretty much everything that Chuck Colson has written. And I consulted with him when I was making some decisions about running for the Senate in the first place.”

“When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking.”

“There are loads of things you can sit and assess but it does come down to one match at a time. This game does speak for itself.”

“Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government.”

“I don't think you can ever assess your work. I don't think Turgenev could assess his any more than I can assess mine, and his didn't have a social impact as much as great literary impact.”

“You can't assess the value of an innovation in isolation, you have to consider whose hands it's in.”

“I see things about the present more clearly when I'm looking through the frame of the past: I think it's very hard to assess the present moment that we are in.”