Keith Ellison Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• I think that you need all perspectives to reflect the needs of the country. If you only give people one perspective, inputting their views into the congressional process, you're going to have a skewed outcome.

  Keith Ellison

  Country, Thinking, Views

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

• One time, the Library of Congress was giving books to local libraries around the country on Islam. The library of a guy named Walter Jones, who's a member of Congress from North Carolina, got some books and resource materials, and he got up in the press and said he didn't want any Muslim books in the library. And the people said, "Wait a minute, that's kind of anti-Muslim." He said, "Oh no, Keith Ellison is a friend of mine." And I said, "You know what? We are friends, but you're wrong about this.

  Keith Ellison

  Country, Book, People

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

• I'm particularly good at turnout. So in my district, I had the lowest voter turnout in 2006. And now I have the highest turnout in the state of Minnesota. And Minnesota is the highest turnout state in the country.

  Keith Ellison

  Country, Voter Turnout, Minnesota

  "Rep. Keith Ellison On Why He Deserves To Be DNC Chairman". "Morning Edition" With David Greene, www.npr.org. November 30, 2016.

• I love the donors and we thank them, but it has to be that the guys in the barber shop, the lady at the diner, the folks who are worried about whether that plant is going to close, they've got to be our focus. They've got to be a laser-beam focus on everything we do, and everything we do should animate and empower them at the grassroots level for working people across this country. That's how we come back.

  Keith Ellison

  Country, People, Guy

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• I think that people have been looking at 40 years of flat wages. You know, the reality is you've got folks in diners and hair shops and barber shops all over this country who look at their own lives and think, you know, "My parents did better than I'm doing and my kids might not do as well as I'm doing." And that's because wages have been slashed for so long.

  Keith Ellison

  Country, Kids, Reality

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• We think all over this country we need to rebuild everything from transit, fiber optic broadband in our rural areas and urban areas.

  Keith Ellison

  Country, Thinking, Needs

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• I'd say the most important criteria is vision. What is your vision for the party? Do you have a vision to strengthen the grassroots and help them turn out people in their local communities? That's the real thing. The real question is not about one person. It's not about an individual. It's about millions of people working all over this country to reach out in their local communities. And the DNC chair has to help them do that and have a vision for that and have the energy for that.

  Keith Ellison

  Country, Real, Party

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• I've been talking to people all over the country, city council members, grassroots leaders, party leaders, members in Congress - and you know what? The truth is I'll have something to say real soon.

  Keith Ellison

  Country, Real, Party

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• I'm looking for a place to be of use and benefit. And every single Democrat in this country better be thinking the exact same way. How can we help the average American worker, you know, right out there, worrying about whether that plant's going to close? Fighting for them, standing up for them. That's what the story is.

  Keith Ellison

  Country, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• Now [in 2016] I have the highest turnout in the state of Minnesota. And Minnesota is the highest turnout state in the country.

  Keith Ellison

  Country, Minnesota, States

  Source: www.npr.org

• I think that Paul Ryan could be a great leader for our country. But I think that he is in a moral choice moment, and so far, he`s choosing wrong Donald Trump.

  Keith Ellison

  Country, Thinking, Leader

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• I hope what we can talk about is something that happened, you know, within the last 25 years, the things that are relevant to our country right here, right now, including all people, fighting for the rights of working people, fighting for the rights of people struggling for dignity and respect in our society.

  Keith Ellison

  Country, Struggle, Fighting

  "Rep. Keith Ellison On Why He Deserves To Be DNC Chairman". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. November 30, 2016.

• The fact is, is that Americans don't hate their Muslim neighbors. They don't hate their Latino neighbors. We have got to build human solidarity in this country, because human solidarity is what's going to allow us to come together to protect our democracy and to protect our economy. So reject the hate. Turn it away. Don't buy it. And reach out to a neighbor. Trump is trying to sow division so that he can distract us from what he's doing to us.

  Keith Ellison

  Country, Hate, Trying

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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