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" If you're going to be a big tent party as we are, and you're going to help elect democrats who have generated support in their communities... the will of those voters is the will that we must respect. "

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" As long as we're united, and as long as we continue to organize, invest, and lead with our values, we'll be unstoppable. "

Tom Perez

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Values

Unstoppable

" We're the party that has fought for Medicare. We're the party that has fought for Social Security. The Republicans have tried to privatize Social Security and voucherize Medicare. "

" Trust is not something that's given because you win an election; it's something you have to earn. "

" I've memorized 'Hamilton.' "

Tom Perez

Hamilton

" If Donald Trump wants to acknowledge that we have a pay gap for women and we need to address it, I would work with Donald Trump. "

" Frankly, what we need to be looking at is whether this election was rigged by Donald Trump and his buddy Vladimir Putin. "

" I'm a proud Dominican American. My folks always taught me that it's important to keep the ladder down and that to whom much is given, much is expected. That's why I have pursued a career in public service. I can't think of a better way to give back what this nation gave to us than to try to make sure that opportunity exists for everyone. "

" There is no price tag on an American life - whether it's in Florida, Texas, or Puerto Rico. "

" 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. "

" Talk about the issues that matter most to people. "

" 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. "

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

Tom Perez

Organizing

Endeavor

" Our message has been muddled, especially in 2016. Voters in Ohio heard from Trump, 'I'm going to save your coal jobs.' And while that was a lie, what it told them is, 'I'm going to feel your pain.' What they heard from the Democratic side was, 'Vote for us because Donald Trump is crazy.' "

" I've said that we need to elect Democrats from the school board to the Senate. "

" I think our big tent is our greatest strength. "

" The Republican playbook is voter suppression. "

" When you cut investments in worker training, you're cutting investments in the middle class. "

" We have to have a conversation where we bring in all the stakeholders and say, 'What is the vision of the Democratic Party?' "

" I remember a good friend of mine whose father worked at Bethlehem Steel for 40 years with just a high school degree. That was a remarkable pathway to prosperity that sustained generations of working families. "

" 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. "

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

" Our economic future and our energy future are one in the same, and it's a future America can't shrink from. We must shape it, just as we've always done. We have to protect our planet from the threat of climate change and ensure that workers have the skills to compete for good middle-class jobs. "

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

Tom Perez

Vote

October

" Every president since Nixon has embraced a policy of 'self-determination without termination' - the idea that Native Americans are best equipped to govern themselves. Trump is breaking with this position. "

" You're more likely to see someone fatally struck by lightning than witness a case of in-person voter fraud. "

" Our message in rural America is just as powerful as it is in urban America. But because we haven't been a physical presence there in any sustained way, we have a lot of voters there who no longer believe that the Democratic Party is working for them. "

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

" Federal government has been a gateway to the middle class for people of color for generations. "

" Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman's right to make her own choices about her body and her health. That is not negotiable. "

" Donald Trump, you don't stand for our values. "