We were at a kibbutz, and we were at a Shabbat service, and I opened up the prayer book, and on the first page, it said that the prayer book was in thanks to the sponsorship of this family in a temple in Kansas City. For me, it was a moment when I really kind of connected in a real serious way with my personal identity as a Jew.
— Jason Kander
Not everyone who goes to Washington becomes Washington.
I'm that dude from the ad about background checks where I put a rifle together blindfolded.
If I had the opportunity to give President Trump any advice, and I had to boil it down to one thing, I suppose it would be that nobody ever got better at any job by blaming everybody else whenever anything goes wrong.
I could work with anybody. This is why we need more veterans in Congress.
Politicians never say never to anything.
Ground troops... have to be a last resort. I think they should always be a last resort.
Really, Donald Trump's entire message is that people like Sen. Blunt are the problem.
This country is a place that you've got to stay invested in.
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.
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.
Since winning the election, Donald Trump has jump-started voter suppression efforts at the federal and state levels.
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.
In the Army, I learned how to use and respect my rifle.
I think that it's a good thing that you want to be part of making the world a better place, including between nine and five.
Senator Blunt genuinely sees everything through the lens of partisan politics.
Voter suppression anywhere hurts our democracy everywhere.
Voters aren't asking to be pandered to and aren't asking to be tricked.
If you've been willing to put your life on the line to do something important for your country or your state, putting your job on the line is really not a very big deal.
You've got to tell people how it is that you've come to believe what you do.
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.
If you're out there saying something that you don't personally believe, then it doesn't really matter if a voter agrees with what you're saying. If they don't believe that you believe it, then they're not going to listen to you anyway.
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.
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.
For far too long, Congress has been focused on the CEOs, the millionaires, the billionaires.
I am a person who cares deeply about what is happening in the country, and for me, in most ways since getting out of the service, at least, politics has been the way in which I see myself best serving and trying to make things better.
Let America Vote will make the case for voting rights by exposing the real motivations of those who favor voter suppression laws.
In the state legislature, I supported Second Amendment rights.
If we all work together, then we can save the American Dream from the nightmare that is Donald Trump.
There are states with photo ID requirements that don't disenfranchise eligible voters.
I believe that if you make it harder to vote, then we should make it harder for you to get reelected.
A lot of millennials really want a company that signs their paycheck, or whoever it is that signs their paycheck, to be an entity that reflects to them in a way that is consistent with their personal idea of who they are.
You can protect the integrity of elections without stopping anyone from voting.
Whether it's intentional or not, Trump regularly makes news for unprecedented and nonpresidential behavior.
Voter suppression is at the very core of the Trump re-election strategy.
Campaigning ain't tough.
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.
I don't judge anybody who chose not to serve during Vietnam, at all. It's a different time, and I don't judge anybody for the decision they made.
I believe in President Obama.
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.
We need Congress to do more than just engage in partisan games.
I obviously did not volunteer to go to Afghanistan solely to protect the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.
I think that one of the things that Democrats, in particular, need to recognize is that the way we have sometimes thought about issues as just affecting a particular group of people is not necessarily right.
I thought of myself as a soldier who was going to law school.
The Democrats need to be confident about making their argument... and making sure that everybody knows we care about them.
I didn't get into politics to play a character on TV.
Everything I do in my political life is colored by my military service. It was the defining moment in my life and helped me develop the leadership skills that I still utilize.
I believe there should be political consequences for politicians who commit voter suppression.
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.
In order to change Washington, we're going to have to change the people that we send there.
