Brian Schweitzer Quotations

I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

And yes, the Homesteaders, including my grandparents who left behind almost nothing, and arrived in Montana with nothing but the clothes on their back, high hopes, faith in God and dreaming of the future.

We need to work our level best in this legislative session to help grow Montana's economy, so that grandchildren can stay in Montana, grandchildren can visit their grandmother and grandfather by driving across town, not flying across the country.

We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for.

I know that Montana is the greatest place in the world to raise a family, to start and grow a business. You know it, and I know it and now we will tell the world.

I do feel a lot more comfortable when my dog is with me.

I don't know a single Republican in Montana who would get in a fight in a bowling alley for John McCain.

We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes.

The big guys, the big dogs, are going to own everything from the White House to the courthouse.

You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators.

When he goes out to meet people, he doesn't come off real,

If you were just a regular person, you turned on the TV, and you saw Eric Cantor talking, I would say—and I'm fine with gay people, that's all right—but my gaydar is 60-70 percent. But he's not, I think, so I don't know. Again, I couldn't care less. I'm accepting.

The generosity of Montanans is inspiring.

The Republicans tend to choose the candidate who came in second place in the last election, and Democrats tend to move on. Ask President Ed Muskie how it worked out to be the front-runner. Ask President Howard Dean how it worked out.

Twenty-six states have passed renewable portfolio standards, which simply says somewhere between 15% and 30% of their electricity will come from renewables by such-and-such a year. In Washington, D.C., they haven't done a damn thing.

All over Montana, you can walk into a bar, a café or even a school or a courthouse and just listen for a while as people talk to each other. And you will hear somebody, before very long, say something outrageously racist.

If I stay in Washington for more than 72 hours, I have to bathe myself in the same stuff I use when my dog gets into a fight with a skunk.

The plan is to continue with pumps to keep the water below that level and then treat the water that they pump out and that's going to have to go on until the end of time,

makes no sense to harm other endangered species in the process.

Montana has always been hesitant to jump head-first into a lawsuit, ... However, the time has come to make sure that the interests of the people of Montana are heard. Montana intends to present a moderate voice in this otherwise contentious area.

Only by working together will we be able to form a stable, long-term energy policy that protects the citizens and ratepayers of Montana and protects our environment, while further strengthening our economy,

Ninety percent of them don't ride horses and many of them don't shoot a gun, but my ads said visually that I understand Montana. My gender gap disappeared. I think I have just summed up why Democrats lose elections.

I have been to high schools all across Montana. If you haven't been to them look lately, I will take you to them, across the street, down the alley, across the parking lot, on the noon hour, before school, after school and I will show you where high school students are learning to smoke.

I am just a Montana farmer. I don't know if what I say or do is exportable. It is a long way from Little League to playing for the Yankees.

He's a bright guy, and he has a good understanding of what we are dealing with here, ... He was unequivocal. He said he has no interest in degrading the water or the air in the Flathead basin.

has been elevated to a much higher level than it has been in the past.

John Brown is a great legal intellect, ... He has a composed and compassionate way about him and I am confident he will make a solid judge.

Our state's most talented should have the opportunity to attend college and be the engines that drive the state's future economic growth.

Look at these numbers, ... People seem to like what we're doing.

You know, if John Kerry could do what I do, he'd be president,

We are miles beyond where we've ever been before, ... This is absolutely a premier I can work with.

Why allow bad beef to enter the U.S. from Canada and not allow safe medicine?

When you fill your gas tank, a portion goes to dictators, sheiks and crooks around the world who funnel some of this money to terrorists, ... We need to stop importing oil from people who want to destroy our way of life.

When the film industry comes to Montana they bring trucks full of equipment and trucks full of money that they leave behind when they are done.

Be likable, be self-deprecating, don't be a know-it-all using a lot of big words,

There's no vision in that energy bill, ... There's no future.

The work of Bob Morgan will pay dividends well beyond his years with us,

This country has no energy plan, no vision for the future, ... We give more tax breaks and money for oil, and what do we get? Three-dollar gas and wars in the Middle East. If you want to control the destiny of this country, it's going to be with synthetic fuels.

This meeting went better than any one of us could have imagined, ... We can do business with this premier.

This is the spirit of Montana at its finest, neighbor helping neighbor, ... These soldiers take with them the hopes and the wishes of all Montanans for a bright future for those affected by this tragedy.

at a savings of more than half or one third of what they were paying in the United States.

It's a damn poor way to run a ranch and it's a way worse way to run a government.

I told Campbell that we would be more than happy to participate in a baseline study in the upper Flathead Basin, ... He was amenable to that.

Smell that, ... You hardly smell anything. This is a clean fuel, converted from coal by a chemical process. We can produce enough of this in Montana to power every American car for decades.

I'm going to stand up among a bunch of elected governors and say, 'Are we going to allow the military without a shot being fired to effectively do an end-run coup on civilian government? Are we going to allow that?' ... We're going to have a little civics lesson for some leaders who are apparently out of touch in the military.

If Washington, D.C., is not going to think big, if they're not going bring us any grand new ideas on energy independence and security, then it falls on the shoulders of the states and the private industry, and that is what we are doing here in these coming days,

If I stay in Washington for more than 72 hours, ... I have to bathe myself in the same stuff I use when my dog gets into a fight with a skunk.

This is a historic construction project, and it will set a standard for impaired rivers worldwide, ... If that dam were to break, there's no telling what would happen. It wasn't built to last this long.

Agriculture will continue to be a large part of who we are in Montana, ... But growth depends on access to public land and quality of life.

All we have gotten from state government is excuses, obstruction and inaction,

The fire season is probably going to be over in the next 50 days, but those next 50 days are going to be critical,