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I was born and raised in Detroit.
I'm an energetic person. I work hard.
I'm happy to talk to anybody about anything.
Opposing [Donald]Trump aligns you with Hamas.
Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.
We're Americans - in times of crisis, we step up.
Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.
People spend money on negative campaigning because it works.
I'm not a scholar of Islamic history or jurisprudence or anything.
The most important criteria for a DNC chair is going to be vision.
[Coming back for Democrats] is simply a matter of energy and resources.
What I'm saying is we [Democratic Party] need to get much more granular.
Americans deserve journalists who provide responsible, objective reporting.
The truth is that we have got to make America work for working people again.
Pragmatism is not always a good thing. Experience is not always a good thing.
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.
I do believe that we should have to - make the voters first; not the donors first.
I have always been a fierce fighter against anti-Semitism. I oppose it and always have.
I'll just say, you know, over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot.
I'm not here to cast aspersions on anyone. I'm trying to unify the party, not find fault.
Publicly criticizing people, even when I don't have the facts, is not that good of an idea.
Serving my neighbors in Congress and fighting for them has been the best job I've ever had.
I'm particularly good at turnout. So in my district, I had the lowest voter turnout in 2006.
We need more leaders speaking up for minority groups who have been marginalized and attacked.
I study these bills. I read them carefully. If it makes sense, I'll sign on them. If not, I don't.
The First Amendment says that we can protest and call to - on our government to address grievances.
You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.
This is what people do in America. They get out. They demonstrate. They let their voices with heard.
The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.
Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.
Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more.
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.
Those who seek the divine want to make this world a better place, which first requires that we communicate.
We've got to make sure our veteran, Democratic veterans are strengthened and feel like they are fully included.
We want to be making clear that if [Donald Trump] tries to deliver on his word, that we will be there to say no.
I'm not against T.V. advertising for campaigns, but we need to emphasize field campaigning much more than we do.
I would really like to hear somebody who is really articulate about the elements of their faith conversion. I'm not.
We've got to build a durable relationship of trust with voters around the things that they are most concerned about.
There's nothing wrong with any group of Americans using our democratic system in order to advance their policy views.
Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them.
When you're a leader, you cannot ignore parts of your constituency, even if you know they're not going to vote for you.
Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.
The main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.
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.
Democrats need an organizer who will energize the grass-roots across this country to build the party from the bottom up.
My values - going back to my childhood - were always based on respect for all people and rejection of bigotry and racism.
We do know that [Hillary Clinton] was probably attacked and smeared as much as any candidate ever has been. We know that.
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.
My faith and my identity as a Muslim - I never saw it as something that made my job harder. It's just an aspect of who I am.