When you buy toothpaste or detergent or gas, that is now used for the first time in your lifetime or my lifetime to support candidates in so-called 'independent ads.' Same thing for unions. — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
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… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts. — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
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,… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
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… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering, ... According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin that… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
The Wisconsin senator gets up and says out loud what half of the country is thinking and talks about every day. This President broke… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive. — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something. — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
Its the reality of a situation like this that when you have a large troop presence that it has the tendency to fuel the… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
