Jason Kander Quotes
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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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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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The president is in charge of the military so that a single individual - accountable to Americans - is responsible for its successes and failures.
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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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As Democrats, when we try to determine who or what allowed Donald Trump to become president, we should look in the mirror.
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I didn't get into politics to play a character on TV.
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Democrats fell in love with the idea that winning elections was a matter of talking to voters about the one issue we think impacts them, instead of our plan to move the country forward as a whole.
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You've got to tell people how it is that you've come to believe what you do.
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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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I believe in President Obama.
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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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Voters are smart. They know the difference between a Democratic Party that wants their vote and a Democratic Party that believes in making their life better. They'll forgive you for pushing a policy they don't like as long as they believe you're doing it because you genuinely believe it's what's best for the country.
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I believe that if you make it harder to vote, then we should make it harder for you to get reelected.
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Whether it's intentional or not, Trump regularly makes news for unprecedented and nonpresidential behavior.
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I'm a Democrat because I want every American to have a fair shot at the American Dream. That's what ties it all together for me, and in my experience, that means recognizing that no one is dealing with life one 'issue' at a time.
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To me, serving wasn't uncommon, and my service paled in comparison to so many of my friends who had done so much more. In my world - as a citizen soldier - I was surrounded by other soldiers just doing their jobs.
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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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The Democrats need to be confident about making their argument... and making sure that everybody knows we care about them.
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You can protect the integrity of elections without stopping anyone from voting.
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Politicians never say never to anything.
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I'm that dude from the ad about background checks where I put a rifle together blindfolded.
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I obviously did not volunteer to go to Afghanistan solely to protect the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.
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This country is a place that you've got to stay invested in.
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Voter suppression anywhere hurts our democracy everywhere.