7 Russ Feingold Quotes on Integrity

Russ Feingold quotes on integrity

15. 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.

26. I can't see a damn soul in D.C. except Russ Feingold who is even worth considering for President. The rest of them seem to me so poisonously in hock to this system of legalized bribery they can't even see straight.

30. [Feingold] showed that a politician need not shelve his conscience to achieve success.

32. The nation needs more leaders similar to Feingold - a Democrat in the Wisconsin Progressive Party tradition - who don't just talk the talk, they walk the walk.

42. I would have loved to have voted for it, but my view of my job is to do what I think is right, not to be cowed by the name of the bill.

43. I didn't come to Washington to make friends. That's not where my friends are.

46. So I'm always going to be someone people think they can knock off, using words like patriotism or whatever. But I don't think it's that easy, because I'm straight with people. I don't say one thing in one town and another thing in another.