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" The truth is that we have got to make America work for working people again. "

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" 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. "

" Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits. "

" My values - going back to my childhood - were always based on respect for all people and rejection of bigotry and racism. "

" Decent wages keep people out of homeless shelters. Decent wages allow families to afford books and, I don't know, school fees and things like that. "

" There must be something in the water in Minnesota because historically, despite its seemingly homogeneous population, the state has produced some of our more radical political thinkers, and its people have put their prejudices aside to vote for them. "

" People will politicize religion; we see it in every faith, in every religion. We see it with Pat Robertson, in my opinion, and we see it with the Taliban. "

" I try to live tolerance in my own way, which is why, as a politician, one of my key priorities is to stand up for human rights. "

" Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more. "

" We need a strong farm bill that gives assistance to farmers during times of drought, creates markets for local goods, protects our environment, and helps struggling families bridge the gap between hard times and a full dinner table. "

" Democrats need an organizer who will energize the grass-roots across this country to build the party from the bottom up. "

" Serving my neighbors in Congress and fighting for them has been the best job I've ever had. "

" Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them. "

" There's nothing wrong with any group of Americans using our democratic system in order to advance their policy views. "

" I've never gotten up in front of a Muslim congregation and played the role of a religious leader, and I decline those invitations because that's not what I am. "

" I'm an energetic person. I work hard. "

" We're Americans - in times of crisis, we step up. "

" I study these bills. I read them carefully. If it makes sense, I'll sign on them. If not, I don't. "

" 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. "

" At the end of the day, the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott had to be converted into the 1964 Civil Rights Act. We don't want politicians who've gotta be coaxed, cajoled and protested. We want them on our side from the beginning. "

" 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. "

" I'll never forget working to get my college, Wayne State University, to divest from the government in South Africa. This was the beginning of my activism, and the fight for social and economic justice has been a constant thread in my life. "

" The United States' job is not to police the whole world. "

" 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. "

" I think there are real dangers to escalating military conflict with ISIS, and we need to be aware of them. But at the same time, you have to understand, you know, that this whole thing started with Bashar al-Assad and how he is the one who continued to escalate against the people of Syria who were trying to get democratic reform. "

" I was born and raised in Detroit. "

" While there are corporal descriptions of what the afterlife is like in Christianity, Islam and Judaism, what's going on there is the finite trying to describe the infinite. If God knows everything, started everything and is the only one who knows how it's going to end, how can any human know what God wants? "

" Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender. "

" 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. "

" I know a lot of police officers who are on the force to do the right thing to protect people. But how can you deny this pattern, this disturbing pattern, Alton Sterling, Mr. Castile in my own community, Philando Castile, but then Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland? "

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" I think it's dangerous to prosecute people for their political views and their political associations. I think you prosecute people for what they do, for their acts. "