Stephanie Herseth Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.”

“I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress.”

“I love the classroom.”

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

“There's no such thing as a partisan base.”

“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.”