Brian Schweitzer Quotations

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.