Jon Tester Quotes

#1. Montana's ranchers raise the best cattle in the world. If Taco Bell needs to beef up, they can give their customers the highest quality meat around by using Montana beef, and in the process, supporting agriculture jobs in Montana.

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#2. There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

Ethan Hawke

#3. I don't want to weaken the Patriot Act. I want to repeal it.

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#4. I have great faith in the people of Montana; they can't be bought.

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#5. I think if you're going to get anything done in the Senate, you have to be on the same sheet of music. If you don't get people on the same sheet of music it comes out pretty horrible.

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#6. I take my vacation on the combine and tractor.

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#7. Montanans believe in the right to make a good life for their families. How they define a family should be their business and their business alone. I'm proud to support marriage equality because no one should be able to tell a Montanan or any American who they can love and who they can marry.

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#8. Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.

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#9. Maybe this is what she meant. Our survival is going to come under threat, and we need to . . . to grow and spread like the Blazing Star.

Erin Hunter

#10. I'm a farmer. I always will be a farmer. When I die, I'll be a farmer. It's something that I've wanted to do since I was 8 years old. I can tell you also that I see opportunity slipping away for our kids.

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#11. You aren't angry "
"You must be joking " she said dryly. "I'm alive Nicholas. And I'm immortal like you. This rocks

Lynsay Sands

#12. I think there is some real therapy in getting your hands in the dirt and working with food.

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#13. Healthcare is very much a high priority for me. Healthcare is also a huge issue for business, both big and small.

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#14. I think corporations are a whole lot different than people. I mean, I don't know a corporation would be put in prison. I do know people would be put in prison.

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#15. I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.

George Eliot

#16. Building houses and mansion ranching is not ranching.

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#17. It brings me back to reality. The combine doesn't care if you're a senator or not. It breaks down whenever it wants to break down.

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#18. Keep studying the scriptures, keep doing the things that build your faith in Jesus Christ and then notice the wise choices you are naturally drawn to make

Russell M. Nelson

#19. I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and woodwinds - but only well enough to teach them. If you put a violin in front of me, you wouldn't say, 'My God, that guy can play.' It'd probably sound more like Jack Benny.

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#20. A well-trained workforce is critical to small-business success. What I hear from business is that it's hard to find help that meets their needs.

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#21. The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

Gloria Steinem

#22. I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.

Steve Martin

#23. History is Something to Look Forward to...

Michael Eckers

#24. I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypnotized me. I don't remember sticking my hand in, but it sheared off the three middle fingers and left me with a pinkie and a thumb.

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#25. I didn't get this physique by not eating tacos.

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#26. Moving on will show you a lot about who you are, what you truly want, & what you have no desire to waste your time on.

April Mae Monterrosa

#27. I will tell you, in the case of education, you have to make the investment if you're going to get the return. There's no doubt about that. It's a proven fact the return is there if you make the investment. It really is about priorities.

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#28. a tree falls in the forest and crushes a demon, does the tree get cursed?

Rick Riordan

#29. You stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.

Yogi Berra

#30. Something told her to hide the feeling from Herb. That something, that damned something, was the sense of civilized dignity that is one of our most civilized attributes, the source of so many missed opportunities.

Eric Kraft

#31. As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

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#32. Design is important because chaos is so hard.

Jules Feiffer

#33. [On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.

Joyce Maynard

#34. You've got to have a good public education system so small-business owners, when they locate to an area, are confident their kids are getting the best education possible. I feel strongly about local control in school districts.

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#35. I don't know how the other senators see me. I hope they see me as a farmer. That's really what I am. But I don't think they see me on a tractor or fixing equipment. I hope they see me grounded, as somebody who has common sense.

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