Stephanie Herseth Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Stephanie Herseth:

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.
~Stephanie Herseth


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/stephanie-herseth-quotes/#00d8c3ef

My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.
~Stephanie Herseth


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/stephanie-herseth-quotes/#bbb1b130

I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.
~Stephanie Herseth


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/stephanie-herseth-quotes/#cc2912db

I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress.
~Stephanie Herseth


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/stephanie-herseth-quotes/#e74f81d7

There's no such thing as a partisan base.
~Stephanie Herseth


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/stephanie-herseth-quotes/#127b0f77

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/stephanie-herseth-quotes/#3b1e8a07

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.
~Stephanie Herseth


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/stephanie-herseth-quotes/#2f46640f

I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.
~Stephanie Herseth


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/stephanie-herseth-quotes/#85b7503f

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.
~Stephanie Herseth


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/stephanie-herseth-quotes/#29967b18

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/stephanie-herseth-quotes/#7f7c2695

I love the classroom.
~Stephanie Herseth


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/stephanie-herseth-quotes/#d1a1cf1b

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.
~Stephanie Herseth


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/stephanie-herseth-quotes/#614ec234

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.
~Stephanie Herseth


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/stephanie-herseth-quotes/#6fd4be8c

Find Stephanie Herseth on Ebay!