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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" Smart growth is having the courage to say yes and having the courage to say no. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Sometimes you have to push the envelope in pursuit of the right thing. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Responding to a natural disaster is a complex problem. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If Donald Trump wants to raise the minimum wage to $15, yes, I will work with Donald Trump. "

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

" 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. "

" Joe Arpaio built a wall. His was a wall of distrust, and when you don't have the trust of the community, you don't have anything. He claimed to be a law-and-order sheriff, but he was really lawlessness and disorder. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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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