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" Clean air and a healthy climate benefit all of us, but it will take a diverse coalition to step up to the threat posed by unchecked climate change. "

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" I would really like to hear somebody who is really articulate about the elements of their faith conversion. I'm not. "

" When you're a leader, you cannot ignore parts of your constituency, even if you know they're not going to vote for you. "

" We need more leaders speaking up for minority groups who have been marginalized and attacked. "

" There's nothing wrong with any group of Americans using our democratic system in order to advance their policy views. "

" Anybody that's ever been to Israel and to Palestine knows that you can't look at a person and tell if they're Israeli or Palestinian. You can assume. But I've seen Palestinians who look Swedish, and I've seen Israelis who are black. "

" Democrats need an organizer who will energize the grass-roots across this country to build the party from the bottom up. "

" I'll never forget working to get my college, Wayne State University, to divest from the government in South Africa. This was the beginning of my activism, and the fight for social and economic justice has been a constant thread in my life. "

" Our democracy is not something to be taken for granted. You have to fight for it. You have to commit yourself to working for it - for the long haul. "

" Why can't we get real, sane, sensible gun legislation? Because the NRA, funded by Mossberg, Smith & Wesson, Glock and all the rest of the big dogs in the weapons industry, you know, spread around donations and won't let it move through. "

" For Ben Carson, Donald Trump, or any other Republican politician to suggest that someone of any faith is unfit for office is out of touch with who we are as a people. "

" People will politicize religion; we see it in every faith, in every religion. We see it with Pat Robertson, in my opinion, and we see it with the Taliban. "

" We're Americans - in times of crisis, we step up. "

" You approach faith with humility. You can have some idea, but it boils down to do you see religion as a club, or do you see religion as a path? Do you see it as a wall that separates you or do you see it as a bridge that connects you to God and other people? When you see it as a bridge, you aren't so worried about bringing others over to your side. "

" I try to live tolerance in my own way, which is why, as a politician, one of my key priorities is to stand up for human rights. "

" Those who seek the divine want to make this world a better place, which first requires that we communicate. "

" I'd tell you whose brand was tainted is Donald Trump. I mean, this guy was tainted every kind of way you could imagine. I mean, no way in the world that Donald Trump is a champion of working people. "

" We got to make sure that the Democratic Party is not just Democratic, but seen to be Democratic. That means we got to have systems in place that makes sure that everybody who participates in a primary is perceived to have an equal shot with everybody else. "

" Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class. "

" Pragmatism is not always a good thing. Experience is not always a good thing. "

" When I hear about these terrorist ideologies, they are completely foreign and strange to me. I mean, to me, it's, like, antithetical. "

" If people want to protest, to get out there and express themselves, as long as they do it peacefully, they should be encouraged to do so. "

" Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement. "

" When I started running for Congress, it actually took me by surprise that so many people were fascinated with me being the first Muslim in Congress. "

" I've never gotten up in front of a Muslim congregation and played the role of a religious leader, and I decline those invitations because that's not what I am. "

" I study these bills. I read them carefully. If it makes sense, I'll sign on them. If not, I don't. "

" While there are corporal descriptions of what the afterlife is like in Christianity, Islam and Judaism, what's going on there is the finite trying to describe the infinite. If God knows everything, started everything and is the only one who knows how it's going to end, how can any human know what God wants? "

" I think that whenever businesses harm the economy, harm workers, harm consumers, or undermine human rights in any way, then it is the role of the government to make sure that they don't do that and to make sure that markets are fair and they operate properly. "

" The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires. "

" Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more. "

" I'm not a scholar of Islamic history or jurisprudence or anything. "