Dusty Johnson

If the voters don’t start voting for thoughtful problem solvers a little more often, then I think we’re going to continue to find it hard to get things done quite as often as we should in D.C.

I would rather wake up every morning worried about the price of corn in a South Dakota field than worried about the price of oil in an Iranian oil field.

In general, I don’t think the House is going to love this version compared to what we passed, but at some point we’ll figure out a way to get to yes, collectively.

I don't really know yet, but I do know that I'm surely not ready to retire. I'm 50, but I feel like a real young 50, and I'm still filled with plenty of piss and vinegar. Let's go get it done.

Well, I think an absolute onslaught of negative ads the last three or four weeks against me, they really worked. Told people I was a career politician, that I was a RINO, that I was a liberal, and we saw in the polling that that was…

The other thing we have to acknowledge is one party's not going to get this done. And I know that's hard for Republicans to hear because so many Republican office holders have sold the American people a bill of goods that this can be done…

Well, everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. I've certainly rolled out a number of plans that would have some pretty substantial reforms to our entitlement programs.

I think the biggest mistake is that we're basically sleepwalking through this competition. I mean, every day the leaders of China get up, and they try to figure out how to beat America, how to destabilize our country, how to get an…

I don’t have any idea what’s next, but I know leaders eat last.

I want to lead a life of consequence. I want to have an impact.

It’s about the impact.

It’s not a good time to be connected to Washington, D.C.

If you are a pregnant woman, your benefits are unaffected. If you have young children at home, your benefits are unaffected by this bill. If you are disabled, your benefits are unaffected by this bill.

Our caucus hates [fiscal] cliffs, we hate dumpster fires, we hate chaos.

While I am disappointed in the outcome, I am committed to helping Republican candidates get elected in November.

It has been the honor of my lifetime to represent South Dakota in Congress these past eight years.

Great. Listen, listen, I have barely spent any time here, OK. The bottom line is, in those hearings, I asked witnesses: How much have we spent combating climate change? Five to six trillion dollars. Our Energy Secretary puts the number at…

We need more happy warriors

I would say that Congress has 99 problems, but Mike Johnson is not one of them

Whether they realize it or not, every single American benefits from having a competitive maritime marketplace. For that to be the case, you have to have a cop on the beat that understands the job, is focused on anticompetitive behavior…

The bottom line is, as I talk to the Senator from Maryland, the way to pass this law--the way to protect Federal workers--isn't with the unanimous consent request of a bill nobody has ever seen; it is to vote for cloture on the Shutdown…

Let's get on the bill. And then let's sit down in good faith. Let's hammer out amendments, and let's get the thing passed next week. Let's do that. That is all I am asking. I honestly hate to object to this. I don't want to. OK? But…

Again, I am trying to keep this--let's not argue. OK? Let's focus on areas of agreement. So reduction in force, again, I think we probably have a philosophical disagreement there. I am not associating myself with anybody else's remarks…

They heard from President Trump over and over again how much good was in this bill.