John Thune
John Thune
John Randolph Thuneis the senior United States Senator from South Dakota and a member of the Republican Party. He previously served as a United States Representative for South Dakota's at-large congressional district. He became South Dakota's Senior senator with the retirement of Tim Johnson in 2015...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth25 December 1961
CountryUnited States of America
experiments
The Obama experiment has failed
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We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation.
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I tell people it's like shopping for a car.People are taking candidates out for a test drive, seeing what they like.
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This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly self-interest, self-preservation.
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When you're the president of the United States and you know that the biggest issue facing you is this cliff that we're about ready to head over if we don't get this spending and debt situation under control, it's very irresponsible not to take the action that is necessary to fix the problem.
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There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now.
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But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not.
christian thinking views
I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.
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Social Security is an extremely complicated program.
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I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.
people work
We need Ellsworth because of the important work people do there,
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We need to stop the quibbling, the partisan games, and political brinkmanship to find a solution that saves and strengthens Social Security for the future.
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you can go too far with that. You can overreach, and it can backfire.
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We've made the decision that we're going to win this on the merit. ... We think there is tremendous military value for Ellsworth going forward and we think we can persuade five of the nine commissioners to take Ellsworth off the list,