Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.
Keith Ellison
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.
You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.
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.
I'm an energetic person. I work hard.
There's nothing wrong with any group of Americans using our democratic system in order to advance their policy views.
We need more leaders speaking up for minority groups who have been marginalized and attacked.
Clean air and a healthy climate benefit all of us, but it will take a diverse coalition to step up to the threat posed by unchecked climate change.
Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.
When I started running for Congress, it actually took me by surprise that so many people were fascinated with me being the first Muslim in Congress.
We're Americans - in times of crisis, we step up.
Pragmatism is not always a good thing. Experience is not always a good thing.
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 own community, Philando Castile, but then Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland?
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.
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 really get their finger on the pulse of how people are feeling. I think that's really important.
The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.
My mom, Clida, taught my four brothers and me about her father's work to organize black voters in rural Louisiana in the 1950s. We carried her dad's legacy of activism with us. The Civil Rights Movement was present in the daily life of my family in Detroit in the 1970s.
I'm going to be fighting to rebuild the Democratic party no matter what. I'm going to be fighting to make sure the Democratic party is known among working people that we are their champion no matter what.
I'd tell you whose brand was tainted is Donald Trump. I mean, this guy was tainted every kind of way you could imagine. I mean, no way in the world that Donald Trump is a champion of working people.
We need a strong farm bill that gives assistance to farmers during times of drought, creates markets for local goods, protects our environment, and helps struggling families bridge the gap between hard times and a full dinner table.
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 conclude that mechanics can't fix cars and you should probably just take yours to the junkyard and sell it for scrap metal.
There must be something in the water in Minnesota because historically, despite its seemingly homogeneous population, the state has produced some of our more radical political thinkers, and its people have put their prejudices aside to vote for them.
The idea of a financial transaction tax on Wall Street trades is gaining momentum. I have a bill called - nicknamed the Robin Hood tax also. It's a bill that taxes stock trades, derivatives and bonds, and would generate in the neighborhood of $300 billion a year.
My values - going back to my childhood - were always based on respect for all people and rejection of bigotry and racism.
Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.
The government has a right - the government and the people of the United States have a right to run the programs of the United States. Health, welfare, housing - all these things.
If people want to protest, to get out there and express themselves, as long as they do it peacefully, they should be encouraged to do so.
Faith really should be a bridge, not a wall. Because at the end of the day, we should be focusing on what you believe, not what your religion is.
At the end of the day, the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott had to be converted into the 1964 Civil Rights Act. We don't want politicians who've gotta be coaxed, cajoled and protested. We want them on our side from the beginning.
While there are corporal descriptions of what the afterlife is like in Christianity, Islam and Judaism, what's going on there is the finite trying to describe the infinite. If God knows everything, started everything and is the only one who knows how it's going to end, how can any human know what God wants?
I think debates are healthy. I think they include more people. And I don't believe most people, if they don't win, are just going to take their ball and go home.
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.
I have a deep and personal aversion to anti-Semitism regardless of its source, and I reject and condemn the anti-Semitic statements and actions of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, and Khalid Muhammed.
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'm not against T.V. advertising for campaigns, but we need to emphasize field campaigning much more than we do.
I have always been a fierce fighter against anti-Semitism. I oppose it and always have.
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.
I think that whenever businesses harm the economy, harm workers, harm consumers, or undermine human rights in any way, then it is the role of the government to make sure that they don't do that and to make sure that markets are fair and they operate properly.
I was born and raised in Detroit.
I've never gotten up in front of a Muslim congregation and played the role of a religious leader, and I decline those invitations because that's not what I am.
Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.
When you're a leader, you cannot ignore parts of your constituency, even if you know they're not going to vote for you.
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.
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.
If you can make a movie, make one. If you can sing a song, sing it. If you can write a play, write it. If you want to run for office, run. But do something to make this world a better place.
Those who seek the divine want to make this world a better place, which first requires that we communicate.
Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more.
Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.
Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them.
Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class.
