Jason Kander Quotes
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In the Army, I learned how to use and respect my rifle.
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The option to recall elected officials is an important one. Our representatives should always be mindful that they answer to their constituents, and if they act in malfeasance, their job may be on the line. But using the recall as a way to reverse the results of an election, or to hold a snap election, is simply undemocratic.
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I signed up for military service in the months following 9/11, and later, as a military intelligence officer, I felt called, like so many others, to volunteer for deployment and service in Afghanistan.
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I'm proud to be a Democrat, and I feel pretty strongly that the country would be better off with Democrats in charge.
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If you've been willing to put your life on the line to do something important for your country or your state, putting your job on the line is really not a very big deal.
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Senator Blunt genuinely sees everything through the lens of partisan politics.
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I don't judge anybody who chose not to serve during Vietnam, at all. It's a different time, and I don't judge anybody for the decision they made.
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I think that it's a good thing that you want to be part of making the world a better place, including between nine and five.
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If you're out there saying something that you don't personally believe, then it doesn't really matter if a voter agrees with what you're saying. If they don't believe that you believe it, then they're not going to listen to you anyway.
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We were at a kibbutz, and we were at a Shabbat service, and I opened up the prayer book, and on the first page, it said that the prayer book was in thanks to the sponsorship of this family in a temple in Kansas City. For me, it was a moment when I really kind of connected in a real serious way with my personal identity as a Jew.
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The sacrifices our warfighters make for us is simply astonishing in modern American society.
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I think that one of the things that Democrats, in particular, need to recognize is that the way we have sometimes thought about issues as just affecting a particular group of people is not necessarily right.
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Trump is doing the country a disservice making things up about the integrity of our elections.
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Very few things in life are more fulfilling than being part of a team and knowing you're a part of something bigger than your own self-interest.
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We need Congress to do more than just engage in partisan games.
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Everything I do in my political life is colored by my military service. It was the defining moment in my life and helped me develop the leadership skills that I still utilize.
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No matter how many times the court shuts them down or how many Americans speak out to defend their rights, Republican politicians who stand to gain from suppressing voters won't back down. They'll only change their tactics.
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I could work with anybody. This is why we need more veterans in Congress.
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I wasn't out there pretending I was a conservative Democrat. I'm somebody who has talked a lot about and has done the act of running as who you are.
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I believe there should be political consequences for politicians who commit voter suppression.
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If I had the opportunity to give President Trump any advice, and I had to boil it down to one thing, I suppose it would be that nobody ever got better at any job by blaming everybody else whenever anything goes wrong.
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I launched more formal elections investigations than any secretary of state in Missouri history, and we didn't get a single complaint about voter impersonation fraud - not one.
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Since winning the election, Donald Trump has jump-started voter suppression efforts at the federal and state levels.
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My experience in uniform has shaped my life and informed who I am like no other, and it's difficult for me to wrap my mind around the idea that I will no longer be a soldier.