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This is what people do in America. They get out. They demonstrate. They let their voices with heard.

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Keith Ellison
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 4
Lawyer
Politician
U.S. Representative
Detroit
Michigan
Keith Maurice Ellison
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America
People
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I'm not here to cast aspersions on anyone. I'm trying to unify the party, not find fault.
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After I win the job and even in the course of seeking it, we're going to be building bridges. And we're going to be meeting people and addressing the concerns that they have.
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What I'm saying is we [Democratic Party] need to get much more granular.
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We think all over this country we need to rebuild everything from transit, fiber optic broadband in our rural areas and urban areas.
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I think that you need all perspectives to reflect the needs of the country. If you only give people one perspective, inputting their views into the congressional process, you're going to have a skewed outcome.
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We've got to build a durable relationship of trust with voters around the things that they are most concerned about.
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Here's the real thing. Democrats got to understand that the first line in the Republican playbook is going to be smear, you know? And there's nobody who's going to be able to avoid it.
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We need to invest at the local party unit and focus our energy on turn out. That's how we come back, and we can come back.
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We want to be making clear that if [Donald Trump] tries to deliver on his word, that we will be there to say no.
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Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.
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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.
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[Coming back for Democrats] is simply a matter of energy and resources.
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San Bernardino involved two killers were actually radicalized before they started courting or dating each other online, and online as late as - as early as the end of 2013, they were talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged and then married and lived together in the United States.
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We do know that [Hillary Clinton] was probably attacked and smeared as much as any candidate ever has been. We know that.
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I was very proud to be part of the Million Man March. I think it's one of the best things that I ever did.
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I hope what we can talk about is something that happened, you know, within the last 25 years, the things that are relevant to our country right here, right now, including all people, fighting for the rights of working people, fighting for the rights of people struggling for dignity and respect in our society.
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Over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot. And the main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.
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People feel like there're two systems of justice, you know? Over there at Wells Fargo, you know, you had the scandal going on there, but the CEO leaves with a big, giant package. And other folks get in a whole lot of trouble for doing a lot less. The truth is that we have got to make America work for working people again.
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