Jason Kander Quotes
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In the Army, I learned how to use and respect my rifle.
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As a former Captain in the Army National Guard, I trained hundreds of soldiers to lead troops into combat.
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When one donor can account for more than 70 percent of a candidate's money, there's obviously something wrong with the system.
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Doing things right in politics is no different than doing things right in life: Tell the truth, be yourself.
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I believe there should be political consequences for politicians who commit voter suppression.
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Not everyone who goes to Washington becomes Washington.
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To me, leadership has always been about doing what's right. Because when you've had to write your blood type on your boots, you aren't afraid to make the right calls.
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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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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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The sacrifices our warfighters make for us is simply astonishing in modern American society.
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I could work with anybody. This is why we need more veterans in Congress.
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He's like a bizarro me. One of us is working for good, and the other is Kris Kobach.
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I realize there are a lot of folks in my political party who disagree with me on this, but I think the Patriot Act is an important law enforcement tool, and it makes our country safer.
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I'll be working every day to help elect voting rights champions in Missouri and around the country.
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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.
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Voters aren't asking to be pandered to and aren't asking to be tricked.
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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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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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Since winning the election, Donald Trump has jump-started voter suppression efforts at the federal and state levels.
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We need Congress to do more than just engage in partisan games.
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Voting in our country has never been easy, and unfortunately, it has never been guaranteed for everyone. But through the work of brave civil rights leaders, some of whom died for the cause, by the early 2000s we were at a point where most, but still not all, people who wanted to vote could do so.
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I got 220,000 votes from people who also voted for Donald Trump. I did not do that by pretending to be a conservative Democrat.
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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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I didn't get into politics to play a character on TV.