Jason Kander Quotes

If an election doesn't go your way, you don't get to call a do-over. Part of respecting our democracy is respecting the will of the voters.

Jason Kander

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• I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Real
  • Job
  • College

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Myself
  • Couple
  • Movies

• Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Want
  • Building
  • Welfare

• I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
  • Belief
  • Equality

• Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Trying
  • Interesting
  • Food

• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace.

  

  Malcolm X
  • God
  • Man
  • Earth

• We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you start has nothing to do with how far you can come.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Know
  • Promise
  • Start

• We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • World
  • You
  • Know

• There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Good
  • Best
  • Mediocrity

• I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Love
  • Football
  • Finish

• I care about writing music and playing my music.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Care

• It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Lunch

• The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Knowledge
  • Moving
  • Best

• You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Work
  • High
  • Night

• I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Society
  • Security

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• The subject of Stalin's death permitted a rare blend of invective and speculation-both Hearst papers, as I recall, ran cartoons of Stalin being rebuffed at the gates of Heaven, where Hearst had no correspondents-and I have seldom enjoyed a week of newspaper reading more.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Death
  • Reading
  • Heaven

• From the very beginning, we were all a hundred and ten percent about the music, from the very early days when we could barely play our instruments, and we were just covering other people's songs when we were in high school.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • People
  • Music
  • School

• If we say that we believe in democracy, if we say that the fabric of a democratic society is one which allows for the free play of idea...then, in the name of all the gods, give that free play a chance to work within the constitutional framework.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Society

• We need an attitude of defiance, not an attitude of cowardice. Out in the street, that's how we are winning against the TransCanada Pipeline. This is how we have delayed the Trans-Pacific Partnership and forced it into an election season, gotten everybody to stand against it. Democracy is not about surrender.

  

  Jill Stein
  • Democracy
  • Winning
  • Attitude

• Every time you think of a city, you have to think green, green, green. Every time you see concrete jungle, you must find open spaces. And when you find open spaces, make it so people can get to them.

  

  Eduardo Paes
  • People
  • Time
  • City

• If an election doesn't go your way, you don't get to call a do-over. Part of respecting our democracy is respecting the will of the voters.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Democracy