John Thune: “It’s not where I get them to compromise. It’s what I get them to leave out.”

I would love to have some spending cuts associated with the debt limit debate.

We’ve got to get a bill, if we want to pass a farm bill, that’s something that can pass the House and be signed into law by the president.

And I think at some point it becomes a decision of what can you get the votes to do.

If you want to have a Republican Senate majority after the election — is not to have us turning fire on each other, but drawing contrasts with Democrats.