Words matter. These are the best Jason Kander Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Doing things right in politics is no different than doing things right in life: Tell the truth, be yourself.
We should be doing everything we can to make it as convenient as possible for eligible Americans to cast a ballot. People fought and died for the right to vote.
When one donor can account for more than 70 percent of a candidate’s money, there’s obviously something wrong with the system.
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.
You don’t get to recall a senator just because you don’t like her or just because you want the seat for your own party.
With limited shifts, low wages, and scarce benefits, it feels almost impossible for many Americans to get their slice of the pie.
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.
To truly care about this country is to demonstrate that you care about her politics the same when you’re winning as when you’re losing.
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.
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.
Senator Blunt genuinely sees everything through the lens of partisan politics.
He’s like a bizarro me. One of us is working for good, and the other is Kris Kobach.
As Democrats, when we try to determine who or what allowed Donald Trump to become president, we should look in the mirror.
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.
Americans are struck by lightning with greater frequency than they commit voter impersonation fraud, and that’s the only kind of fraud that photo ID requirements could have any hope of preventing.
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.
I believe there should be political consequences for politicians who commit voter suppression.
To improve the standard of living for working folks, we have to raise the minimum wage and empower workers to fight for their interests in an economic and political system that’s stacked against them.
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.
The president is in charge of the military so that a single individual – accountable to Americans – is responsible for its successes and failures.
Anyone can be something. Leaders want to do something.
Ground troops… have to be a last resort. I think they should always be a last resort.
I obviously did not volunteer to go to Afghanistan solely to protect the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.
Voter suppression anywhere hurts our democracy everywhere.
There are states with photo ID requirements that don’t disenfranchise eligible voters.
The men and women of the American military have the courage to follow orders. They deserve a commander-in-chief with the courage to give them.
We have got to zero in on the fact that all of us, no matter where you live, want our kids’ lives to be an upgrade over our own, and we would really like it if our kids could come back and live where we raised them.
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.
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.
I didn’t get into politics to play a character on TV.
A lot of states that pass voter ID laws have little to no evidence of in-person voter impersonation fraud, which is the only kind of fraud that voter ID laws could guard against.
What we believe is that health care should be a right in this country; I happen to believe that means that we should be for single-payer.
The military is a group of people that come together from different perspectives and backgrounds and places and get a job done because they have a mission.
Voter suppression is at the very core of the Trump re-election strategy.
The sacrifices our warfighters make for us is simply astonishing in modern American society.
Trump is doing the country a disservice making things up about the integrity of our elections.
If you can get to know a person, and you can really understand them, it can usually help you better understand yourself and why you believe what you believe.
Unions continue to be important for raising the standard of living for working Americans, whether or not they happen to be in a union.
I believe in President Obama.
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.
My experience in uniform has shaped my life and informed who I am like no other, and it’s difficult for me to wrap my mind around the idea that I will no longer be a soldier.
Americans want to be represented by the best candidate, not the one with the richest friends.
In order to change Washington, we’re going to have to change the people that we send there.
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.
Whether it’s intentional or not, Trump regularly makes news for unprecedented and nonpresidential behavior.
I love this country, and I won’t let losing an election force me away from the process.
Voting in our country has never been easy, and unfortunately, it has never been guaranteed for everyone. But through the work of brave civil rights leaders, some of whom died for the cause, by the early 2000s we were at a point where most, but still not all, people who wanted to vote could do so.
As a former Captain in the Army National Guard, I trained hundreds of soldiers to lead troops into combat.
I realize there are a lot of folks in my political party who disagree with me on this, but I think the Patriot Act is an important law enforcement tool, and it makes our country safer.
Politicians never say never to anything.
