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" The 3.5 million people in Puerto Rico are American citizens. They deserve fair and equal treatment as Americans. "
Tom Perez
American
People
Puerto Rico
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" 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. "
Tom Perez
Opportunity
Think
Service
" Talk about the issues that matter most to people. "
Tom Perez
People
Talk
Issues
" Organizing has to be a 12-month endeavor. "
Tom Perez
Organizing
Endeavor
" 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. "
Tom Perez
Responsibility
Past
Trust
" I consider Keith Ellison a friend. "
Tom Perez
Friend
Consider
" The Republican playbook is voter suppression. "
Tom Perez
Republican
Voter
Suppression
" We have to have a conversation where we bring in all the stakeholders and say, 'What is the vision of the Democratic Party?' "
Tom Perez
Conversation
Party
Say
" 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. "
Tom Perez
Women
I Am
Diversity
" People are so sick of these Twitter tirades. They want leaders they can be proud of. "
Tom Perez
Want
Sick
Leaders
" 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. "
Tom Perez
Doing
Band
Trying
" 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. "
Tom Perez
Talk
Fraud
Career
" 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. "
Tom Perez
Leadership
Opportunity
Music
" 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. "
Tom Perez
Donald Trump
Women
Work
" Donald Trump is anathema to America. "
Tom Perez
America
Anathema
Donald Trump
" Federal government has been a gateway to the middle class for people of color for generations. "
Tom Perez
Middle
Class
People
" 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. "
Tom Perez
Hope
City
World
" Here's the reality: when Hillary Clinton won the nomination, the DNC handed her insufficient and substandard tools for success. "
Tom Perez
Tools
Her
Reality
" If Donald Trump wants to pass comprehensive immigration reform, I will work with Donald Trump. "
Tom Perez
Donald Trump
Work
Will
" As Republicans try to trample on our most sacred freedoms, Democrats will do everything we can to end discrimination and protect the one right that preserves all others - the right to vote. "
Tom Perez
Try
Vote
End
" 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. "
Tom Perez
Movement
Party
Union
" 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. "
Tom Perez
Support
Woman
Health
" When you cut investments in worker training, you're cutting investments in the middle class. "
Tom Perez
You
Class
Worker
" Michigan is a state we should have won in 2016, and we didn't, and I want to understand why. "
Tom Perez
Want
Why
Understand
" 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. "
Tom Perez
Opportunity
Job
Powerful
" 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. "
Tom Perez
Remember
Good
Friend
" Donald Trump, you don't stand for our values. "
Tom Perez
Donald Trump
You
Values
" Responding to a natural disaster is a complex problem. "
Tom Perez
Disaster
Problem
Complex
" 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. "
Tom Perez
Opportunity
Immigrant
Relationship
" You're more likely to see someone fatally struck by lightning than witness a case of in-person voter fraud. "
Tom Perez
Someone
See
You
" I happen to think Donald Trump is crazy, but that's not an economic message. "
Tom Perez
Think
Crazy
Donald Trump