Dane County Deputy Sheriff's Association

A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you.

There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

The problem with political jokes is that they get elected.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Character is what you really are; reputation is merely what you are perceived to be.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

We’re talking about a science fiction show, we’re talking about the humanity we live in today. I still find it incredible that we still use word “race” as a cultural determinant… I detest what we’ve done to ourselves. Out of a need to make ourselves different from one another, we’ve made the word “race” a way of expressing culture. There’s no such thing—and all you high school students, bless your hearts for being here. You’re a hundred champions right now that are going to go out understanding this. The adults in the room will never understand, even though they’ll nod their heads and say “you’re right.” They’ll never be able to stop using the word “race” as a cultural determinant. I just heard one of the most prolific statements done by one of the great humanitarians, he’s really trying to organize and bring us together, and he used the word “race” as if there is a Latino race, an Asian race, an indigenous race, a Caucasian race. There’s no such thing as a Latino race. There never has been. There never will be. There’s only one race, and that’s what the show brought out. That is the human race, period.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.