Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.
– Mike Rounds
But if the vision is strong enough, and your goals are steady, and you believe, pretty soon you bring other people with you.
– Mike Rounds
In every decision we make and in every policy we develop, we are committed to protecting those who cannot protect themselves... the very young and the very old.
– Mike Rounds
Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
– Mike Rounds
One thing that stands out throughout the entire year was that in South Dakota we are much more united than we are divided. Now the divided part creates news, but the united part is what moves us forward.
– Mike Rounds
Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed.
– Mike Rounds
The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over.
– Mike Rounds
There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.
– Mike Rounds
There is not a single one among them [legislators] that doesn't understand the importance of education, and I know that I will be able to work with them to see that our education is improved, even though today we produce children that the rest of the world comes and competes for.
– Mike Rounds
We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.