Keith Ellison Quotes

I raised my right hand and placed my left on the Quran, which was being held by my wife and mom. Suddenly, I was blinded by a cascade of camera flashes.

If you unpack the statistics on who is supporting , Donald Trump, it means that there is a lot of people who hold very bigoted racist ideas and there is a lot of them.

Opposing [Donald]Trump aligns you with Hamas.

Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.

I worked at McDonald's. I cooked. It was one of the toughest jobs I've ever had. These people earn every single penny they get. In fact, they earn way more than they get.

The main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

If you put everything, your heart and soul into a campaign, it might take you a while to come around to the realization that, you know, another person has won.

We want to be making clear that if [Donald Trump] tries to deliver on his word, that we will be there to say no.

After I win the job and even in the course of seeking it, we're going to be building bridges. And we're going to be meeting people and addressing the concerns that they have.

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

Here's what I'm saying, that there is now ongoing a post-mortem review of what could have gone better [during Hillary Clinton campaign] and what mistakes may have been made.

Here's the real thing. Democrats got to understand that the first line in the Republican playbook is going to be smear, you know? And there's nobody who's going to be able to avoid it.

I want to avoid sounding like I'm criticizing because I don't have all the facts in front of me yet. And I am trying to be a unifier.

The most important criteria for a DNC chair is going to be vision.

Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.

Over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot. And the main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

We need young people to be involved, and we have to expect that young people are going to be impatient, they don't want to wait, and they've got new ideas and new ways of looking at problems.

I didn't pay close enough scrutiny to some of the other things that Louis Farrakhan was saying, that's something I just live and learn.

We do know that [Hillary Clinton] was probably attacked and smeared as much as any candidate ever has been. We know that.

I'll just say, you know, over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot.

I'm happy to talk to anybody about anything.

What I'm saying is we [Democratic Party] need to get much more granular.

I'm not here to cast aspersions on anyone. I'm trying to unify the party, not find fault.

I'd rather frame [Clintons] in terms of what I think we need to do going forward.

Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.

Publicly criticizing people, even when I don't have the facts, is not that good of an idea.

We've got to build a durable relationship of trust with voters around the things that they are most concerned about.

We need to invest at the local party unit and focus our energy on turn out. That's how we come back, and we can come back.

I think that Donald Trump picked on people's fears, their anxieties and he gave them somebody to blame, and some folks just really turned out for him for that.

We had Jesse Ventura in Minnesota win the governorship, nobody thought he was going to win. I'm telling you, stranger things have happened.

Our message of strengthening the middle class, working people, we just didn't penetrate well enough and we didn't have the kind of turn out that we really needed or expected.

Vision and the ability to mobilize and inspire people at the grassroots. That's what the most important criteria is going to be for any DNC chair.

This is what people do in America. They get out. They demonstrate. They let their voices with heard.

I - to say the word "scared", I don't know if I'm scared because, I have faith that we will see this through. But I take Donald Trump seriously. He has literally millions of people who support him.

Vehicle emissions standards directly sparked the development and application of a wide range of automotive technologies that are now found throughout the global automobile market.

[Coming back for Democrats] is simply a matter of energy and resources.

Trump is trying to tell all of us Americans that we are our own problem, not him. And that's not true. He's the problem.

You have to talk about the issue of race, but I can talk to white constituents about racism, if I at least acknowledge that life is not a crystal stair for them either.

We have a chance for racial solidarity because all of us, unless you're in the top 1 percent, are really struggling in this economy.

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.

I think it's a good idea to be - to fairly identify where things could have gone better once you get the facts, once you get the data and once you're able to review.

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.

As chairman of the DNC, [Keith ] Ellison says he would replicate that kind of turnout on a national scale. But we spoke yesterday about some history that could stand in the way.

I was very proud to be part of the Million Man March. I think it's one of the best things that I ever did.

I'm particularly good at turnout. So in my district, I had the lowest voter turnout in 2006.

We'll see if [Donald Trump] really means it though; he will get a chance to deliver on that promise. And if he doesn't, we'll make sure the people know about it.

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

The First Amendment says that we can protest and call to - on our government to address grievances.

I do believe that we should have to - make the voters first; not the donors first.

I'm not here to say what [Clintons] did wrong. I mean, there's going to be plenty of post-mortem review of what should have gone differently.