Jason Kander Quotes
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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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As a former Captain in the Army National Guard, I trained hundreds of soldiers to lead troops into combat.
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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 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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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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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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We need Congress to do more than just engage in partisan games.
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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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Trump is doing the country a disservice making things up about the integrity of our elections.
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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'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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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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Senator Blunt genuinely sees everything through the lens of partisan politics.
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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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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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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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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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Voters are okay with you believing something they don't believe, as long as they think you genuinely believe it, and you believe it because you care about them.
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I believe there should be political consequences for politicians who commit voter suppression.
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I could work with anybody. This is why we need more veterans in Congress.
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Voters aren't asking to be pandered to and aren't asking to be tricked.
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Since winning the election, Donald Trump has jump-started voter suppression efforts at the federal and state levels.