Keith Ellison

“Decent wages keep people out of homeless shelters. Decent wages allow families to afford books and, I don't know, school fees and things like that.”

“I know a lot of police officers who are on the force to do the right thing to protect people. But how can you deny this pattern, this disturbing pattern, Alton Sterling, Mr. Castile in my ow...”

“Our democracy is not something to be taken for granted. You have to fight for it. You have to commit yourself to working for it - for the long haul.”

“Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class.”

“I'm not a scholar of Islamic history or jurisprudence or anything.”

“Throughout my work as a state legislator and member of Congress since 2002, I have worked as hard as I could to build bridges. I've worked to combat anti-Semitism and confront Holocaust deni...”

“A Republican philosophy goes something like this: If you take your car to the mechanic, and instead of fixing it, they take out the engine and charge you an arm and a leg, you should conclud...”

“The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.”

“What is it to be white? It does mean something to be Norwegian. It means something to be Polish or German or Spanish. But 'white' is simply a catchall for 'light-skinned person.' It doesn't...”

“Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more.”

“I support Israel. And I have long supported a two-state solution and a democratic and secure state for the Jewish people, with a democratic and viable Palestinian state side-by-side in peace...”

“People like, George Soros, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sax, Dean Baker, Robert Poland, Larry Summers have said they all support a transaction tax.”

“I think it's dangerous to prosecute people for their political views and their political associations. I think you prosecute people for what they do, for their acts.”

“Pragmatism is not always a good thing. Experience is not always a good thing.”

“I think that anybody who is going to be the standard-bearer, the spokesman for the progressive movement, in the context of a presidential race, has got to learn to master the language and re...”

“How are we all going to pitch in to fix this party to make working America know that the Democratic party is absolutely on their side? That's the real question.”

“People will politicize religion; we see it in every faith, in every religion. We see it with Pat Robertson, in my opinion, and we see it with the Taliban.”