Keith Ellison famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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...
-- Keith Ellison

#Mom #Hands #Wife
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.
-- Keith Ellison

#Jobs #Mcdonalds #People
Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.
-- Keith Ellison

#Progressive #Economic #Economy
Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.
-- Keith Ellison

#Retirement #Jobs #Able
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.
-- Keith Ellison

#Technology #Development #Range
Even Hamas - Hamas is a terrorist group - do you know that Hamas came out in opposition to [Donald ]Trump`s statement? That puts the Republican Party, the Democrat Party, and everybody else in the establishment and [Barack]Obama on the same side Hamas is on. And over here all by himself is Donald Trump.
-- Keith Ellison

#Party #Sides #Terrorist Groups
I've been winning with 70 percent of the vote, and if you look at my district, you know it's a majority Christian district, and yet we've still been winning with high margins, so I don't feel like I've had any disadvantages for being a minority.
-- Keith Ellison

#Christian #Winning #Majority
You know, the elites always want to shame the poor - right? - and everyone else. I mean, the fact is, this economy is based on 70 percent of the people driving consumer demand. If people do not purchase goods and services, this economy will grind to recession. And that is why, if you are going to do a tax cut, it ought to really be aimed at low-income and middle-income people.
-- Keith Ellison

#Mean #Cutting #People
One thing that I'd just remind young people of is that when John Lewis, who's a member of Congress today, defied George Wallace and led the march from Selma to Montgomery, he was 23 years old. Martin Luther King was the old man in the bunch, and he was 35, so young people need to know that they've always been an important part of our society, have always been at the forefront of pushing for a more just America, and we can't be successful without the impatience, the vigor that young people bring to the fight for social justice.
-- Keith Ellison

#Kings #Fighting #Successful
Donald Trump is using an age-old trick of right wing populism, much like George Wallace, much like Joe McCarthy, Pitchfork Ben Tillman who in the 1880s and `90s was a rabid hateful racists who whipped up hate and hysteria for his own political benefit.
-- Keith Ellison

#Hate #Wings #Hysteria
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.
-- Keith Ellison

#Mean #Ideas #People
Opposing [Donald]Trump aligns you with Hamas.
-- Keith Ellison

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

#Trying #Want #Trump
I'm an optimistic guy.It's just as much the case that people will come to me and ask my opinion about how to properly include the Muslim community, as it is that people will come with some hateful stuff too. When people come to me about my religion, it's not always a thing of "we don't want people like you here," which happens sometimes. But mostly it's people who would like to know more. I get a chance to help people understand the religion better.
-- Keith Ellison

#Optimistic #People #Community
I'm not against trade...but they're not really trade deals. They're really investment deals between international corporations...They're saying we want to get a race to the bottom so we can exploit the most unfortunate worker.
-- Keith Ellison

#Race #Want #Corporations
San Bernardino involved two killers were actually radicalized before they started courting or dating each other online, and online as late as - as early as the end of 2013, they were talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged and then married and lived together in the United States.
-- Keith Ellison

#Two #Talking #Dating
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.
-- Keith Ellison

#Real #Lines #Able
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.
-- Keith Ellison

#Trying #Problem
People feel like there're two systems of justice, you know? Over there at Wells Fargo, you know, you had the scandal going on there, but the CEO leaves with a big, giant package. And other folks get in a whole lot of trouble for doing a lot less. The truth is that we have got to make America work for working people again.
-- Keith Ellison

#Justice #People #Trouble
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
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.
-- Keith Ellison

#Jobs #Winning #Bridges
Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.
-- Keith Ellison

#Jobs #Engineering #Environmental
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.
-- Keith Ellison

#Trying #Want #Facts
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.
-- Keith Ellison

#Mistake #Campaigns #Gone
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
Worked hard on [our message of strengthening the middle class, working people], but it didn't come through in places like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania.It really should have, because people are struggling. And the Democratic message and the Democratic platform would help them, but somehow it didn't come up the way it should have. But it will.
-- Keith Ellison

#Struggle #Should Have #Class

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