Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Keith Ellison
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Keith Ellison
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 4
Lawyer
Politician
U.S. Representative
Detroit
Michigan
Keith Maurice Ellison
Course
Concerns
Winning
Bridges
Jobs
Meeting
Even
Meetings
Going
Seeking
People
Concern
Building
Courses
Addressing
More quotes by Keith Ellison
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.
Keith Ellison
I'm not here to cast aspersions on anyone. I'm trying to unify the party, not find fault.
Keith Ellison
Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.
Keith Ellison
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.
Keith Ellison
To strengthen the grassroots at the party - at the party unit, at the county level, at the precinct level, and then to help motivate and facilitate the local grassroots to get out there and turn out the vote and boost turn out. And then to help govern in places where we do hold city councils and state legislatures.
Keith Ellison
The most important criteria for a DNC chair is going to be vision.
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
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
This is what people do in America. They get out. They demonstrate. They let their voices with heard.
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
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
These folks are telling Donald Trump that if he tries to move out on his plan to have a deportation squad, to harm Americans, and if he does - and if he has - he tries to do that, we're going to be there to stand and say no. We don't - we oppose his misogyny. We oppose his picking on people of different ethnic and religious groups.
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
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.
Keith Ellison
The main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.
Keith Ellison
For activists who want to preserve constitutional democracy, who don't believe in hereditary aristocracy, who believe that teachers ought to be able to deduct the 250 bucks of school supplies that they bring - they might spend their own money for in a classroom, then you still have time to fight a horrible piece of legislation.
Keith Ellison
We've got to build a durable relationship of trust with voters around the things that they are most concerned about.
Keith Ellison
What I'm saying is we [Democratic Party] need to get much more granular.
Keith Ellison
Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.
Keith Ellison
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.
Keith Ellison
