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  • I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

  • What's getting all the attention is we have South Dakota putting out this direct frontal attack. I'm actually just as concerned about what they're doing every day on the ground. If you restrict access to the point there is no one who can or will do it for you, you've taken the right away. And that's becoming the reality for women in many states in this country.

    Country   Taken   Reality  
  • You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

    Writing   Winter   House  
    Dan O'Brien (2007). “Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch”, p.171, Random House
  • My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

    "Richie Havens: Face to Face with His Face". Interview With Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 26, 2006.
  • We have had some great shows this summer, the Jammin Against the Darkness event was pretty incredible and it was good to see everyone at the festivals. Today we head to South Dakota for the start of the tour with Falling Up, The Wedding and Mainstay.

    Summer   Fall   Darkness  
  • South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

  • By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

    Wind   Oil   America  
  • Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Jobs   Support   Trying  
  • I'd rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant.

    Lying   Tourists   Naked  
  • I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.

    Gun   Russia   Class  
    "For Feller, Navy was easy decision". Interview with Mary Buckheit, www.espn.com. November 12, 2009.
  • What our family has done is participate in the farm programs. And so the farm programs I think essentially almost every farmer in South Dakota has participated in those, and they haven't been bailouts, they have been programs that the United States has put forward for farmers to participate in.

    "Noem on Bailouts" by Tim Appel, Rapid City Journal, October 13, 2010.
  • I met my wife in South Dakota.

  • I hereby pledge that, if elected to represent the people of South Dakota, I will never vote to shut down their government, or to place their government in default, in order to force it to act, or to prevent it from acting, on unrelated issues.

  • In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.

    Light   Iowa   Tuesday  
  • Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people commit evil acts to enrich themselves further. Harlem, East Los Angeles, the South side of Chicago are not the poorest communities in the United States. According to a new U.S. Bureau of the Census report, the poorest communities are Shannon County, South Dakota, followed by Starr, Texas, and Tunica, Mississippi. Have you ever heard of these residents rioting to protest their living conditions?

    Life   Believe   Reality  
  • Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York! And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House, Yeeeeeaaaaaargh!

    Remarks after Iowa caucuses, Des Moines, Iowa, 19 Jan. 2004. The "Yeah" at the end of these comments was perceived as a scream and contributed substantially to the decline of his presidential candidacy.
  • My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.

  • Voters replaced Democratic senators with Republicans in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, and likely in Alaska, and appear on track to do so in a runoff next month in Louisiana. At the same time, voters kept Republicans in GOP seats in heavily contested races in Georgia, Kansas, and Kentucky. That is at least ten, and as many as a dozen, tough races, without a single Republican seat changing hands. Tuesday's voting was a wave alright - a very anti-Democratic wave.

    Alaska   Kansas   Race  
  • When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

    Growing Up   War   Debt  
    "George McGovern: Barack Obama, Democrats Need a Backbone". Interview with Kira Zalan, www.usnews.com. December 2, 2011.
  • 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.

    Moving   Years   News  
  • College was an experience I'll always cherish. Now I fund a scholarship at my alma mater in my late father's name-he'd laugh to know that it's a science scholarship, when I can barely do math! I also fund a nursing scholarship at the Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, South Dakota, in the name of my mother, who was a nurse.

    Mother   Father   Nursing  
  • I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans

  • I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

    Dad   War   Boys  
    "George McGovern's Legacy: From Liberalism to Feeding the Hungry" by Matthew Larotonda, abcnews.go.com. October 21, 2012.
  • My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.

    Fall   Joints   Firsts  
  • The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance.

    Ignorance   Army   Years  
  • You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.

  • Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.

    Ocean   People   Insanity  
    Song: Ballad of Hollis Brown
  • I think that there was a lot of undisclosed money that came into South Dakota, driving a message to paint me as a Washington partisan, which I don't believe that I am, but it was a message that resonated, after pounding it away for a number of weeks.

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