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" Infrastructure done right can help working people; infrastructure done wrong is just more money for private equity. "
Tom Perez
Money
Done
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" I consider Keith Ellison a friend. "
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" If Donald Trump wants to pass comprehensive immigration reform, I will work with Donald Trump. "
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" You can't show up at a church every 4 October and say, 'Vote for me,' and call that persuasion. "
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" It's not only inhumane to treat Puerto Ricans as second-class citizens. It's deeply un-American. "
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" We have to have a conversation where we bring in all the stakeholders and say, 'What is the vision of the Democratic Party?' "
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" Growing up in Buffalo, I saw shuttered factories that once housed thousands of steel manufacturing jobs. I remember the hollowing-out of the middle class in our community. I witnessed hope turn to hardship as a once-thriving city reckoned with a fast-changing world. "
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City
World
" There is no price tag on an American life - whether it's in Florida, Texas, or Puerto Rico. "
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Texas
Tag
" Sometimes you have to push the envelope in pursuit of the right thing. "
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The Right Thing
Sometimes
" Donald Trump's vision of America, his nativist vision of America, his fear mongering - that's what we have to fight. "
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" 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. "
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Leadership
Opportunity
Music
" I've memorized 'Hamilton.' "
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Hamilton
" The Republican playbook is voter suppression. "
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Republican
Voter
Suppression
" We believe that health care is a right, not a privilege. "
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Privilege
Health
Care
" 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. "
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Energy
Change
America
" 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. "
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Doing
Band
Trying
" 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. "
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Movement
Party
Union
" If Donald Trump wants to raise the minimum wage to $15, yes, I will work with Donald Trump. "
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Minimum Wage
Yes
Work
" 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. "
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Opportunity
Think
Service
" 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. "
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Experience
Opportunities
People
" 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. "
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Support
Woman
Health
" Organizing has to be a 12-month endeavor. "
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Organizing
Endeavor
" You can't eat cake and lose weight. "
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Cake
You
" I've said that we need to elect Democrats from the school board to the Senate. "
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Need
Said
School
" 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. "
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Social
Tried
Party
" 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.' "
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Crazy
Vote
Side
" 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. "
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Native Americans
Without
Policy
" 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. "
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Values
Water
Moral
" 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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You
Will
Support
" Frankly, what we need to be looking at is whether this election was rigged by Donald Trump and his buddy Vladimir Putin. "
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Need
Donald Trump
Looking