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.

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.

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

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

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.