John Thune said "I urge everybody to take a deep breath, myself included, and tone down the rhetoric." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordApril 23, 2013

I urge everybody to take a deep breath, myself included, and tone down the rhetoric.

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Republican · South Dakota

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