Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I am proud of our diversity, and when you attack the federal workforce, you are having significant impact on women - many of whom are single moms working to support their family - and you're having a significant impact on communities of color. "

Related Quotes:

" When you recruit good candidates and you have a good message and you have energy and organization and partnership, you always have a fighting chance. "

Tom Perez

Chance

You

Good

" Infrastructure done right can help working people; infrastructure done wrong is just more money for private equity. "

" Donald Trump's vision of America, his nativist vision of America, his fear mongering - that's what we have to fight. "

" Our universal message of access to economic opportunity resonates with the ironworker in northeastern Ohio and the immigrant in South Florida. And we sometimes have a relationship deficit with our voters, because we're not communicating that message. "

" When my grandchildren ask, 'Where were you when Donald Trump took a sledgehammer to Lady Liberty?' I want to make sure I can tell them I was there protecting America. "

" It's not only inhumane to treat Puerto Ricans as second-class citizens. It's deeply un-American. "

" As Republicans try to trample on our most sacred freedoms, Democrats will do everything we can to end discrimination and protect the one right that preserves all others - the right to vote. "

" You can't show up at a church every 4 October and say, 'Vote for me,' and call that persuasion. "

Tom Perez

Vote

October

" Organizing has to be a 12-month endeavor. "

Tom Perez

Organizing

Endeavor

" I happen to think Donald Trump is crazy, but that's not an economic message. "

" I was in the U.K. and Germany and went to Volkswagen and learned about their apprenticeship model - young people become paid apprentices in trades. It's not a coincidence that youth unemployment is far lower in Germany than the United States because there are paid opportunities for young people to get experience. "

" You can't eat cake and lose weight. "

" I met a person on my rural tour in northwest Wisconsin who said to me, 'I feel politically homeless.' And we need to re-engage that person. "

Tom Perez

Person

Need

" We're the party that's fought for increased wages, fought for the union movement, fought to make sure that collective bargaining is not eviscerated, it's strengthened. And when we communicate those messages, we succeed. "

" We need bold leadership to bring America back to its first principles of diversity inclusion and opportunity for everyone in every ZIP Code, and music is that vehicle to summon our better angels. Music is that vehicle and always has been a vehicle to challenge us to build a better America. "

" The Democratic Party and DNC have to be a very conspicuous face of the opposition to Donald Trump and all his divisiveness. At the same time, we have to communicate our, I think, positive and inclusive message to everyone. "

" Donald Trump is anathema to America. "

" Michigan is a state we should have won in 2016, and we didn't, and I want to understand why. "

" What you learn growing up in a place like Buffalo is that your job isn't just your paycheck, it's your identity. It doesn't just give you dollars, it gives you dignity. "

" People are so sick of these Twitter tirades. They want leaders they can be proud of. "

" We believe that health care is a right, not a privilege. "

" Here's the reality: when Hillary Clinton won the nomination, the DNC handed her insufficient and substandard tools for success. "

" Donald Trump has shown no interest in working toward increasing the minimum wage, no interest in doing anything but immigrant baiting, no interest in doing anything but filling the swamp with a band of billionaires who are simply trying to help the wealthy. "

" If Donald Trump wants to pass comprehensive immigration reform, I will work with Donald Trump. "

" Donald Trump is a fraud. Listening to him talk about how he's going to put American first again, he's spent his entire career putting his own profits first. "

" I consider Keith Ellison a friend. "

Tom Perez

Friend

Consider

" Budgets are moral documents. They reflect the values of any government and when you're compromising clean air, clean water, and lead, you're making a statement about communities you don't care about. "

" The Democratic Party has learned from the terrible mistakes of the past. Our platform requires that we honor, fulfill, and strengthen the federal government's trust responsibility to American Indians. We take this responsibility seriously. "

" We're at our best when we put hope in front of fear. "

" Our message of opportunity and inclusion is, I think, a very powerful message that does indeed speak to Americans, but we've got to do a better job of listening. "