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" I am not one of those people who has contempt for Hillary Clinton. I think she's served our nation. I think there are things that she's done that are very good. "
Keith Ellison
Good
She
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" 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. "
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" There's nothing wrong with any group of Americans using our democratic system in order to advance their policy views. "
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" There must be something in the water in Minnesota because historically, despite its seemingly homogeneous population, the state has produced some of our more radical political thinkers, and its people have put their prejudices aside to vote for them. "
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" Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy. "
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" Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender. "
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" I'm going to be fighting to rebuild the Democratic party no matter what. I'm going to be fighting to make sure the Democratic party is known among working people that we are their champion no matter what. "
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" Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement. "
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" Pragmatism is not always a good thing. Experience is not always a good thing. "
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" You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day. "
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" One of the things that will decline over time is the demand that the society or the government bring forth a particularized racial remedy based on a history of deprivation. That will be even more difficult to do in the future. "
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" Faith really should be a bridge, not a wall. Because at the end of the day, we should be focusing on what you believe, not what your religion is. "
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You
" The truth is that we have got to make America work for working people again. "
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" 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. "
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Israel
You
" Democrats need an organizer who will energize the grass-roots across this country to build the party from the bottom up. "
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Build
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" The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires. "
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Breaks
Middle
" The idea of a financial transaction tax on Wall Street trades is gaining momentum. I have a bill called - nicknamed the Robin Hood tax also. It's a bill that taxes stock trades, derivatives and bonds, and would generate in the neighborhood of $300 billion a year. "
Keith Ellison
Hood
Financial
Tax
" I think debates are healthy. I think they include more people. And I don't believe most people, if they don't win, are just going to take their ball and go home. "
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Think
More
Home
" Serving my neighbors in Congress and fighting for them has been the best job I've ever had. "
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Fighting
Job
Congress
" A Republican philosophy goes something like this: If you take your car to the mechanic, and instead of fixing it, they take out the engine and charge you an arm and a leg, you should conclude that mechanics can't fix cars and you should probably just take yours to the junkyard and sell it for scrap metal. "
Keith Ellison
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You
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" I'm not against T.V. advertising for campaigns, but we need to emphasize field campaigning much more than we do. "
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Against
Need
" Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them. "
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Now
" People like, George Soros, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sax, Dean Baker, Robert Poland, Larry Summers have said they all support a transaction tax. "
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Support
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" We need more leaders speaking up for minority groups who have been marginalized and attacked. "
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" How are we all going to pitch in to fix this party to make working America know that the Democratic party is absolutely on their side? That's the real question. "
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" People spend money on negative campaigning because it works. "
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" We must invest in and empower our state and local parties by creating effective field operations, an enhanced and advanced voter file, and a culture of collaboration between candidates at every level. Let's put the voters first. "
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" 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. "
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" The government has a right - the government and the people of the United States have a right to run the programs of the United States. Health, welfare, housing - all these things. "
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Government
Health
" Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more. "
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Less
Class
" 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? "
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Islam
Know