I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

I met my wife in South Dakota.

I grew up in the Midwest. I grew up in South Dakota.

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

on a number of issues important to South Dakota.