Russ Feingold famous quotes

It is not patriotic to decide to destroy a new president who was duly elected by an overwhelming margin. It is un-patriotic to resolve to destroy that presidency.
-- Russ Feingold

#Patriotic #President #Resolve

It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.
-- Russ Feingold

#Majority #Enough

Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech.
-- Russ Feingold

#Speech #Free Speech

I rise to oppose the Central American Free Trade Agreement, known as CAFTA, the latest expression of the disastrous trade policies of this administration which are, unfortunately, a continuation of the disastrous trade policies of previous administrations.
-- Russ Feingold

#Expression #Agreement #Administration

The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.
-- Russ Feingold

#Wings #America #Want

Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against TARP, that I voted against repealing Glass-Steagall Act that kept these guys under some control.
-- Russ Feingold

#Wall #Party #Glasses

Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been a legislator. That's what I do. I think it's an honorable profession - if you're honest and have integrity and work hard.
-- Russ Feingold

#Jobs #Integrity #Hard Work

We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law.
-- Russ Feingold

#Law #Needs #Election

There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.
-- Russ Feingold

#Peaceful #Protest #Peaceful Protest

The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive.
-- Russ Feingold

#Littles #Faces #Offensive

Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.
-- Russ Feingold

#Wall #Real #Movement

He's got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various agencies, .. I'm not hearing the same things at the briefings that I'm hearing from the president's top officials.
-- Russ Feingold

#Agency #President #Together

Congress has lost its way if we don't hold this President accountable for his actions.
-- Russ Feingold

#President #Way #Action

It's time to refocus our global fight against terrorism. We must move away from the Iraq-centric policies that are draining our resources and focus on Al Qaeda and its affiliates who are reportedly operating in some 60 to 80 countries around the world.
-- Russ Feingold

#Country #Moving #Fighting

The Democrats were in the majority in the U.S. Senate when we voted for the Iraq war and passed the U.S. Patriot Act. It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.
-- Russ Feingold

#War #Iraq #Majority

The President's pre-1776 mentality is hurting America and fracturing the foundation on which our country has stood for 230 years. The President can't just bypass two branches of government, and obey only those laws he wants to obey.
-- Russ Feingold

#Country #Hurt #Years

The president and others say that if we leave, it will just be chaos in Iraq. Well, right now when you come to Iraq, you can't even drive from the airport to the Green Zone.
-- Russ Feingold

#Iraq #Airports #President

The Wisconsin senator gets up and says out loud what half of the country is thinking and talks about every day. This President broke the law and lied about it; he trashed the Constitution and hides himself in the flag.
-- Russ Feingold

#Country #Thinking #Law

That's what I like about you, senator, you're kicking it old-school.
-- Russ Feingold

#Old School #School #Kicking

We must let this town square, which has added a significant dimension to our political process, continue to flourish.
-- Russ Feingold

#Squares #Political #Towns

Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.
-- Russ Feingold

#Patriotic #Government #Federal Government

One can see the results of those policies in hundreds of communities around my State. As one might expect, our largest communities--places like Milwaukee, Madison, and Green Bay--lost thousands of jobs as a result of those trade policies, most notably NAFTA and permanent most-favored-nation status for China.
-- Russ Feingold

#Jobs #Community #Green

Most of my town hall meetings had always been love fests, and some of my guys used to complain: 'I'd like for somebody to yell at you a bit.
-- Russ Feingold

#Guy #Complaining #Towns

Money in politics is a huge issue.
-- Russ Feingold

#Issues #Money In Politics

I will also continue to strongly oppose any reauthorization of the Patriot Act that does not protect the rights and freedoms of law-abiding Americans with no connection to terrorism.
-- Russ Feingold

#Rights #Law #Abiding

Opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling is bad public policy that has no place in the budget process,. The Budget Committee needs to leave drilling in the Arctic Refuge behind and focus on crafting this year's budget package.
-- Russ Feingold

#Years #Oil #Opening Up

We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.
-- Russ Feingold

#Doors #Issues #Important

Unfair trade agreements, passed by both Republicans and Democrats, have sent millions of jobs to other countries. We need to stop this hemorrhaging and find ways for American workers to compete in the new market.
-- Russ Feingold

#Country #Jobs #Agreement

If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.
-- Russ Feingold

#Office #Members #Should

It is not only all right but necessary to stand up to George Bush.
-- Russ Feingold

Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.
-- Russ Feingold

#Past #Issues #President

Its the reality of a situation like this that when you have a large troop presence that it has the tendency to fuel the insurgency, because they can make the incorrect and unfair claim that somehow the United States is here to occupy this country, which of course is not true.
-- Russ Feingold

#Country #Reality #Fuel

It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.
-- Russ Feingold

#Years #Government #Lasts

Americans want to defeat terrorism and they want the basic character of this country to survive and prosper. They want both security and liberty, and unless we give them both — and we can if we try — we have failed.
-- Russ Feingold

#Country #Character #Giving

The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America.
-- Russ Feingold

#Party #America #Tea

I'm proud to be a Democrat.
-- Russ Feingold

#Proud #Democrat

What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense?
-- Russ Feingold

#Jobs #Community #Sticks

The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.
-- Russ Feingold

#Military #Iraq #Ongoing

It will make the Tea Party look like a tea party.
-- Russ Feingold

#Party #Tea #Looks

I'm one of the only members of the U.S. Senate who isn't a millionaire. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a millionaire. But there ought to be a little economic diversity in the Senate and I try to provide it.
-- Russ Feingold

#Diversity #Trying #Littles

I've been outspent by my opponents every time I've run for U.S. Senate.
-- Russ Feingold

#Running #Opponents

If a senator or congressman notices 25 phone calls, on any issue, on any given day, it is noted.
-- Russ Feingold

#Issues #Phones #Phone Calls

I believe in local control of education.
-- Russ Feingold

#Believe #I Believe #I Believe In

Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering, ... According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin that active-duty soldiers are now spending one of every two years abroad, leaving little of the Army left in any appropriate condition to respond to crises that may emerge elsewhere in the world. In an era in which we confront a globally networked enemy, and at a time when nuclear weapons proliferation is an urgent threat, continuing on our present course is irresponsible at best.
-- Russ Feingold

#Mistake #Military #Army

There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is gone, we don't have to worry about these guys again.' We always have to be worried about them, we always have to be concerned about them, and we have to be well-informed.
-- Russ Feingold

#War #Worry #Guy