Tim Johnson Country Quotations

Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start.

I have serious concerns about whether it's prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we're sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt.

We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.

I'm also pleased to know that in the long term, South Dakota-produced ethanol will help reduce the unpredictable price of gas and help make our country less dependent on foreign sources of oil,

I think a lot of the buck does stop with FEMA, ... Their system for matching law enforcement needs with law enforcement resources out around the country broke down.

The Japanese and other countries would love to buy American beef, I believe, but they want to know that it's American beef that they're buying and not beef that's simply been funneled through our country from BSE-infected nations.