“I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypno...” — Jon Tester Quote

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I think there's plenty of folks out there, whether they agree with me or not, they appreciate the fact that you're listening to them. And I think that's how you win.”

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

“Donald Trump was straight up. I mean, he told me what he thought of me, and that's cool. I might not like it, but at least he did it to my face. That's what Montanans like. They like people to be square with them.”

“My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.”

“I'm a butcher champ, I don't care what I eat, I don't care what I cut, I just want to get cutting.”

“A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.”

“Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.”

“Why crown your own rack of pork when a butcher could do it for you? To start, it's way easier to brine two individual racks than a giant round crown (and yes, you definitely want to brine the meat).”

“For a while, I dallied with the idea of the law - I didn't really know what it was, but I thought it sounded sensible. And as a child, I wanted to be a goalkeeper. Or a butcher.”