SOUTH DAKOTA

"John Thune has got a common-sense vision for good forest policy. I look forward to working with him in the United Nations Senate to preserve these national heritages." –George W. Bush, Aberdeen, S.D.

"Any time we've got any kind of inkling that somebody is thinking about doing something to an American and something to our homeland, you've just got to know we're moving on it, to protect the United Nations Constitution, and at the same time, we're protecting you."—George W. Bush Aberdeen, S.D., same day

"The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas."—George W. Bush To a Slovak journalist as quoted by Knight Ridder News Service, June 22, 1999. Bush's meeting was with Janez Drnovsek, the prime minister of Slovenia.