Brian Schweitzer Quotes & Sayings

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. — Brian Schweitzer

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

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

The generosity of Montanans is inspiring. — Brian Schweitzer

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. — Brian Schweitzer

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. — Brian Schweitzer

Good ideas are the backbone of good government. — Brian Schweitzer

We have always been dreamers in Montana. — Brian Schweitzer

No, money is power. — Brian Schweitzer

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

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. — Brian Schweitzer

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

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. — Brian Schweitzer

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. — Brian Schweitzer

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

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

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. — Brian Schweitzer

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. — Brian Schweitzer