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" Our democracy is not something to be taken for granted. You have to fight for it. You have to commit yourself to working for it - for the long haul. "
Keith Ellison
Fight
Yourself
You
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" 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
" A Republican philosophy goes something like this: If you take your car to the mechanic, and instead of fixing it, they take out the engine and charge you an arm and a leg, you should conclude that mechanics can't fix cars and you should probably just take yours to the junkyard and sell it for scrap metal. "
Keith Ellison
Fix
You
Car
" The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires. "
Keith Ellison
Tax
Breaks
Middle
" 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
" Why can't we get real, sane, sensible gun legislation? Because the NRA, funded by Mossberg, Smith & Wesson, Glock and all the rest of the big dogs in the weapons industry, you know, spread around donations and won't let it move through. "
Keith Ellison
Real
Gun
Rest
" 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
" Anybody that's ever been to Israel and to Palestine knows that you can't look at a person and tell if they're Israeli or Palestinian. You can assume. But I've seen Palestinians who look Swedish, and I've seen Israelis who are black. "
Keith Ellison
Person
Israel
You
" 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
" Pragmatism is not always a good thing. Experience is not always a good thing. "
Keith Ellison
Experience
A Good Thing
Good
" Americans deserve journalists who provide responsible, objective reporting. "
Keith Ellison
Responsible
Reporting
Who
" We've got to make sure our veteran, Democratic veterans are strengthened and feel like they are fully included. "
Keith Ellison
Veterans
Feel
Got
" 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
" I'm going to be fighting to rebuild the Democratic party no matter what. I'm going to be fighting to make sure the Democratic party is known among working people that we are their champion no matter what. "
Keith Ellison
Going
Party
People
" I think that anybody who is going to be the standard-bearer, the spokesman for the progressive movement, in the context of a presidential race, has got to learn to master the language and really get their finger on the pulse of how people are feeling. I think that's really important. "
Keith Ellison
People
Think
Feeling
" Vehicle emissions standards directly sparked the development and application of a wide range of automotive technologies that are now found throughout the global automobile market. "
Keith Ellison
Development
Automobile
Now
" When voters know what Democrats stand for, we can improve the lives of all Americans, no matter their race, religion or sexual orientation. "
Keith Ellison
Stand
Race
Matter
" 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
" Serving my neighbors in Congress and fighting for them has been the best job I've ever had. "
Keith Ellison
Fighting
Job
Congress
" 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
" You approach faith with humility. You can have some idea, but it boils down to do you see religion as a club, or do you see religion as a path? Do you see it as a wall that separates you or do you see it as a bridge that connects you to God and other people? When you see it as a bridge, you aren't so worried about bringing others over to your side. "
Keith Ellison
Religion
Faith
God
" 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
" I would really like to hear somebody who is really articulate about the elements of their faith conversion. I'm not. "
Keith Ellison
Who
Faith
Hear
" Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits. "
Keith Ellison
Against
Creating
Republicans
" The truth is that we have got to make America work for working people again. "
Keith Ellison
America
People
Truth
" The real problem for Democrats is we've got to help people believe, and then we've got to deliver the message to them. Believe what? That we are absolutely, unshakeably on their side, and we're going to fight for them every single minute. "
Keith Ellison
Help
Problem
People
" 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
" You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day. "
Keith Ellison
You
Relationship
Long
" 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
" 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
" I have a deep and personal aversion to anti-Semitism regardless of its source, and I reject and condemn the anti-Semitic statements and actions of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, and Khalid Muhammed. "
Keith Ellison
Actions
Deep
Islam