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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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Keith Ellison
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 4
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U.S. Representative
Detroit
Michigan
Keith Maurice Ellison
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[ Big infrastructure investment mentioned by Donald Trump] that would be a welcome development. We'll see if he wants to deliver on that. The truth is that if he does, we want to see infrastructure development too.
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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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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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[Coming back for Democrats] is simply a matter of energy and resources.
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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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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'm not here to cast aspersions on anyone. I'm trying to unify the party, not find fault.
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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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I think it's a good idea to be - to fairly identify where things could have gone better once you get the facts, once you get the data and once you're able to review.
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I'm particularly good at turnout. So in my district, I had the lowest voter turnout in 2006.
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Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.
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I want to avoid sounding like I'm criticizing because I don't have all the facts in front of me yet. And I am trying to be a unifier.
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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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What I'm saying is we [Democratic Party] need to get much more granular.
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You have to talk about the issue of race, but I can talk to white constituents about racism, if I at least acknowledge that life is not a crystal stair for them either.
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Now [in 2016] I have the highest turnout in the state of Minnesota. And Minnesota is the highest turnout state in the country.
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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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Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.
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I didn't pay close enough scrutiny to some of the other things that Louis Farrakhan was saying, that's something I just live and learn.
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I - to say the word scared, I don`t know if I`m scared because, I have faith that we will see this through. But I take Donald Trump seriously. He has literally millions of people who support him.
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