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• It is not only all right but necessary to stand up to George Bush.

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• 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.

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  War, Iraq, Majority

  The Boston Globe, March 06, 2006.

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• 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.

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  Country, Hurt, Government

  "Pre-1776 Mentality". www.dailykos.com. February 02, 2006.

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• Jews know the Palestinians. And they know they're not really different. And they know they are from the same background. And they know if they coordinated that they could be an economic success and a real basis for a rebirth in the Middle East.

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  Real, Middle East, Different

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• Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

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  Wall, Real, Occupy Movement

  "Russ Feingold: A Senator Without Constituents". Interview with Death Race, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Guy, Complaining, Towns

  "Russ Feingold: A Senator Without Constituents". Interview with Death Race, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2012.

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• I believe in local control of education.

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  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

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• I believe that the Israelis and the Palestinians, by and large, want peace, they each want their own country, and they want to get along, and they are going to get along. I know it sounds unbelievable, but I know enough about this, having been there, that these are sophisticated people. It's not like in Pakistan, where people have been told about Jews for a thousand years but don't know any. The Palestinians know the Jews.

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  Country, Believe, Years

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

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  Phones, Issues, Phone Calls

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• 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.

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  Country, Character, Giving

  "Senate Resoundingly Renews Patriot Act" by Joel Roberts, www.cbsnews.com. February 28, 2006.

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

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  Running, Opponents, Senate

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• I have long believed that Israel should seek to give up the so-called Occupied Territories in return for security, and that a Palestinian state should be established. I have felt that way all my life. I think it is unreasonable to ask the Israelis to do this in a context where there is no guarantee at all that suicide bombers will be controlled.

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  Suicide, Giving Up, Thinking

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. April 30, 2002.

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• 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.

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  Diversity, Trying, Littles

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• It will make the Tea Party look like a tea party.

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  Party, Tea, Looks

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• 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.

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  Rights, Law, Abiding

  Russ Feingold's statement on the USA-PATRIOT Act Reauthorization Deal, February 9, 2006.

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• People whose terms go for five years or longer, like FCC commissioners. That's a higher standard. Then district judges, who are appointed for a lifetime but can be overruled. Then Court of Appeals judges. They're not the highest level, but they're almost the final word. And then, of course, the Supreme Court.

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  Years, Fcc, People

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild for The Progressive Magazine, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. May 2002.

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• 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?

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  Jobs, Community, Sticks

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• I'm proud to be a Democrat.

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  Proud, Democrat

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• Money in politics is a huge issue.

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  Issues, Money In Politics, Huge

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• When the President picks someone who is his ideological soul mate, that's his right, in my reading of "advise and consent." I do think, though, the more you get up the ladder, when someone is no longer accountable to the President, and more importantly, will stay in office after the President, the standard gets tougher and tougher.

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  Reading, Thinking, Office

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. April 30, 2002.

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• Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits are unacceptable, and they shouldn’t be put on the table by Democrats for any reason...

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  Cutting, Benefits, Tables

  "Russ Feingold: Nancy Pelosi Needs To Stand Strong" by Ryan Grim, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2012.

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• In my opinion, we need to again consider the possibility of public funding of congressional elections, following the very successful experience with clean money systems in Maine and Arizona.

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  Successful, Needs, Maine

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• 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.

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  Country, Reality, United States

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• 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.

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  Airports, Iraq, President

  "Feingold Leads Way on Iraq War". archive.boston.com. October 08, 2005.

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• 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.

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  War, Worry, Guy

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