143 Quotes by Russ Feingold

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It’s a joke. It doesn’t enforce the law.

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.

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.'