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" I have always been a fierce fighter against anti-Semitism. I oppose it and always have. "
Keith Ellison
Always
Against
Been
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" We need more leaders speaking up for minority groups who have been marginalized and attacked. "
Keith Ellison
More
Minority
Leaders
" We're Americans - in times of crisis, we step up. "
Keith Ellison
Step
Times
Crisis
" Pragmatism is not always a good thing. Experience is not always a good thing. "
Keith Ellison
Experience
A Good Thing
Good
" 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
" 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. "
Keith Ellison
Republican
Someone
Faith
" 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. "
Keith Ellison
Change
Climate Change
Step
" 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. "
Keith Ellison
Got
Party
Just
" My faith and my identity as a Muslim - I never saw it as something that made my job harder. It's just an aspect of who I am. "
Keith Ellison
Just
Never
Faith
" 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. "
Keith Ellison
Priorities
Key
Live
" 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. "
Keith Ellison
You
People
Way
" When I hear about these terrorist ideologies, they are completely foreign and strange to me. I mean, to me, it's, like, antithetical. "
Keith Ellison
Mean
Like
Foreign
" 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. "
Keith Ellison
People
Government
Health
" 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. "
Keith Ellison
Think
More
Home
" 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. "
Keith Ellison
Question
Real
Party
" We've got to make sure our veteran, Democratic veterans are strengthened and feel like they are fully included. "
Keith Ellison
Veterans
Feel
Got
" Serving my neighbors in Congress and fighting for them has been the best job I've ever had. "
Keith Ellison
Fighting
Job
Congress
" If you can make a movie, make one. If you can sing a song, sing it. If you can write a play, write it. If you want to run for office, run. But do something to make this world a better place. "
Keith Ellison
Run
You
Place
" What is it to be white? It does mean something to be Norwegian. It means something to be Polish or German or Spanish. But 'white' is simply a catchall for 'light-skinned person.' It doesn't really mean anything. "
Keith Ellison
Mean
White
Something
" I study these bills. I read them carefully. If it makes sense, I'll sign on them. If not, I don't. "
Keith Ellison
Study
Bills
Makes
" Decent wages keep people out of homeless shelters. Decent wages allow families to afford books and, I don't know, school fees and things like that. "
Keith Ellison
Know
School
People
" I'm not a scholar of Islamic history or jurisprudence or anything. "
Keith Ellison
Anything
History
Islamic
" I believe that Israel and the U.S.-Israel relationship are, and should be, key considerations in shaping U.S. policy in the Middle East. Americans with roots or interests in the region should be involved in advocacy and discussions of public policy concerning the region. "
Keith Ellison
Roots
Believe
Relationship
" Those who seek the divine want to make this world a better place, which first requires that we communicate. "
Keith Ellison
Place
Better Place
Better
" Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them. "
Keith Ellison
People
Progressive
Now
" 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? "
Keith Ellison
Trying
Islam
Know
" 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. "
Keith Ellison
People
Surprise
Running
" 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. "
Keith Ellison
Empower
Collaboration
Culture
" The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires. "
Keith Ellison
Tax
Breaks
Middle
" Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits. "
Keith Ellison
Against
Creating
Republicans
" My mom, Clida, taught my four brothers and me about her father's work to organize black voters in rural Louisiana in the 1950s. We carried her dad's legacy of activism with us. The Civil Rights Movement was present in the daily life of my family in Detroit in the 1970s. "
Keith Ellison
Work
Daily
Family