Russ Feingold Quotes - Page 3

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• 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, Should, Congress

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Integrity, Hard Work

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• 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

  "Feingold courts tea party votes" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. October 08, 2010.

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• The most significant impact is what it does in terms of the integrity of the legislative process and the executive process, as opposed to what it does for campaigns. But to remove this unheard of process in the 1990s, where members of Congress are being pushed and shoved every Tuesday to ask for $100,000, $500,000, a million dollars from corporations, unions, and individuals, this was never allowed in American history.

  Russ Feingold

  Integrity, Impact, Tuesday

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

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• 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

  Russ Feingold (2012). “While America Sleeps: A Wake-up Call for the Post-9/11 Era”, p.211, Broadway Books

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• 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 presses Iraq debate". www.cnn.com. October 9, 2002.

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• 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

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• Health care is still the number-one issue out there. Someone who seizes it, I think, will do very well in an election. Let's face it: Clinton's two big issues were the middle class tax cut, which he dropped, wisely, at the time to help reduce the deficit, and health care. That's what he ran on.

  Russ Feingold

  Cutting, Thinking, Class

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

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• 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.

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  Agreement, Expression, Administration

  Congressional Record Volume 151 - Part 11, June 30, 2005.

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• 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

  Congressional Record Volume 151 - Part 11, June 30, 2005.

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• Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.

  Russ Feingold

  Patriotic, Government, Overreaching

  myDD.com, March 10, 2005.

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• I do think there would be a receptivity to somebody who campaigned in a straightforward, cohesive way, supporting an increase in the minimum wage, being for universal health care for all Americans, and opposing trade agreements like NAFTA.

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  Thinking, Agreement, Would Be

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

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

  Russ Feingold

  Squares, Political, Towns

  "Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics", transcripts.cnn.com. March 10, 2005.

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• The economy has definitely been improving, and things like the stock market are doing better, but the economy has to be good for working-class and middle-class families who work every day, send their kids to a school like is in front of my house, and they have to be able to enjoy their lives. That's why you don't pass a trade agreement that ships even more jobs overseas.

  Russ Feingold

  Jobs, School, Kids

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• I want to see a more progressive Democratic ticket. I'm not happy with the Democratic Leadership Council's dominance of the party. And although I'm unlikely to be the person, I want Wisconsin's progressivism to influence the ticket. And we'll do better as a party if we do. We'll have more energy. We'll have a broader tent.

  Russ Feingold

  Party, Energy, Want

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

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• I find that students are very strong on my issues, stronger than anyone: anti-death penalty, anti-racial profiling, campaign finance reform, questioning the anti-terrorism bill.

  Russ Feingold

  Strong, Issues, Reform

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

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