Nobody is out looking for confrontations, what we are looking for is to be able to provide good information in a timely fashion, but to be seen as being responsible and being honest. I think that's what the American people deserve. And I think that's what many of us want to do. We're not looking to fight. What we're looking is, is to say here are the facts, and they're not going to change.

Mike Rounds

But if the vision is strong enough, and your goals are steady, and you believe, pretty soon you bring other people with you.

Mike Rounds

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We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.

Mike Rounds

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As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use.

Mike Rounds

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The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over.

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Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.

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Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Mike Rounds

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There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

Mike Rounds

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One thing that stands out throughout the entire year was that in South Dakota we are much more united than we are divided. Now the divided part creates news, but the united part is what moves us forward.

Mike Rounds

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The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

Mike Rounds

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The key is meaningful, and we haven't seen that.

Mike Rounds

politics

It's a very serious issue for a lot of us. You talk about duty, honor and country, you think of John McCain. Today, honesty is the best policy. We ran out of time. We were talking about other issues. The President, in this particular case, The President could have been a member of the United States Senate. The President was on a roll today. The President had a number of issues The President wanted to talk about. The President touched on a number of very important issues.

Mike Rounds

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You can call any type of a series of different types of guns assault weapon, and suddenly then they become a demonized item, and then suddenly it sounds like we've done something. The reality is there's a whole lot of different types of weapons that can be utilized whether you're talking about a handgun, or you're talking about a shotgun, or you're talking about a rifle….

Mike Rounds

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All we have to do is take away one particular type of weapon – that suddenly becomes the discussion point. And suddenly we all feel good about having done something. And in reality, we haven’t done something.

Mike Rounds

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Personally, I think if you think of the quality of life that has been delivered to millions of people around the world and freedoms that we find for people around the world, most of it has happened because of innovation due to capitalism, and because the United States of America exists.

Mike Rounds

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Our men and women in uniform – and their families – make incredible sacrifices to keep our country safe; allowing them to keep their families safe is the least we can do.

Mike Rounds

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In every decision we make and in every policy we develop, we are committed to protecting those who cannot protect themselves... the very young and the very old.

Mike Rounds

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Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed.

Mike Rounds

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People can get hurt, people can get killed if South Dakota's not stored correctly, and if that information gets out.

Mike Rounds

I don't see the law changing. i already think that the fact that we've got eight to one on the Supreme Court that indicated that it's not coming up, probably makes it a moot question to begin with.

Mike Rounds

The election was fair, as fair as we have seen. We simply did not win the election, as Republicans, for the presidency.

Mike Rounds