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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.
Keith Ellison
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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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One of the most important things we can do right now is empower ordinary working Americans who really do deserve a fair shot in this economy. But I'm not afraid to talk about any issue. But I do believe it is a distraction.
Keith Ellison
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.
Keith Ellison
This is what people do in America. They get out. They demonstrate. They let their voices with heard.
Keith Ellison
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.
Keith Ellison
I'm looking for a place to be of use and benefit. And every single Democrat in this country better be thinking the exact same way. How can we help the average American worker, you know, right out there, worrying about whether that plant's going to close? Fighting for them, standing up for them. That's what the story is.
Keith Ellison
Can't be all men, can't be all white, can't be all black, can't be all straight. [It has] got to be a wide range of people. Can't be all people of one faith group. We need diversity so we can have the views of all Americans reflected in congressional outcomes.
Keith Ellison
I'm not here to cast aspersions on anyone. I'm trying to unify the party, not find fault.
Keith Ellison
Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.
Keith Ellison
I don't feel that I've been hampered by [ racism or discrimination], and the reason why is that we reach out to people on the basis of where everyone meets, and try to build common cause on that basis. Because of that, I think we've cut through some of the issues that normally divide people.
Keith Ellison
Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.
Keith Ellison
The most important criteria for a DNC chair is going to be vision.
Keith Ellison
Worked hard on [our message of strengthening the middle class, working people], but it didn't come through in places like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania.It really should have, because people are struggling. And the Democratic message and the Democratic platform would help them, but somehow it didn't come up the way it should have. But it will.
Keith Ellison
[Coming back for Democrats] is simply a matter of energy and resources.
Keith Ellison
I do believe that we should have to - make the voters first not the donors first.
Keith Ellison
[ 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.
Keith Ellison
I think that Paul Ryan could be a great leader for our country. But I think that he is in a moral choice moment, and so far, he`s choosing wrong Donald Trump.
Keith Ellison
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
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.
Keith Ellison
Now [in 2016] I have the highest turnout in the state of Minnesota. And Minnesota is the highest turnout state in the country.
Keith Ellison
Donald Trump is using an age-old trick of right wing populism, much like George Wallace, much like Joe McCarthy, Pitchfork Ben Tillman who in the 1880s and `90s was a rabid hateful racists who whipped up hate and hysteria for his own political benefit.
Keith Ellison