Jason Kander Quotes
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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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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 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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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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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 believe in President Obama.
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Trump is doing the country a disservice making things up about the integrity of our elections.
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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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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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You've got to tell people how it is that you've come to believe what you do.
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For far too long, Congress has been focused on the CEOs, the millionaires, the billionaires.
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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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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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Whether it's intentional or not, Trump regularly makes news for unprecedented and nonpresidential behavior.
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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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I obviously did not volunteer to go to Afghanistan solely to protect the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.
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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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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'm that dude from the ad about background checks where I put a rifle together blindfolded.
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You can protect the integrity of elections without stopping anyone from voting.
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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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Politicians never say never to anything.
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This country is a place that you've got to stay invested in.
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We have to be willing to engage ISIS militarily, economically, and even on the Internet without delay. For instance, I think we waited too long to engage al-Qaida and the Taliban in Pakistan. And we should not make a similar mistake with ISIS elements throughout the world.