Jon Tester Quotes

Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

To live with integrity in an unjust society we must work for justice. To walk with integrity through a landscape strewn with beer cans, we must stop and pick them up.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'

I always feel compelled to lend my voice to things I strongly believe in.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.

We have the obligation to defy public opinion in the public interest.

If my doing the right thing will cost me my seat, they can take this job and shove it.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

As a person, I am not really someone who would intervene and tell you to do the right thing.

What I will stand up for is what I think is right and for the best interests of the citizens of the state of Iowa.

It is our responsibility, but not burden, to be champions.

A man ought to do what he thinks is right

When there's a right and wrong thing to do, choose right regardless of what your friends do.

There is a point, of course, where a man must take the isolated peak and break with all his associates for clear principle; but until that time comes he must work, if he would be of use, with men as they are. As long as the good in them overbalances the evil, let him work with them for the best that can be obtained.

Winning or losing elections is not important. What is important is that I have taken the plunge.

Fight for what you believe in, speak your mind, and don't be afraid.

I do what I can do to help my defense.

I want to make sure I do the right thing for society.

There are only a few times in a man's life where you have the chance to stand up for something that you believe in and make a statement.