Top 55 Jason Kander Quotes

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.

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.

To me, serving wasn’t uncommon, and my service paled in comparison to so many of my friends who had done so much more. In my world – as a citizen soldier – I was surrounded by other soldiers just doing their jobs.

If an election doesn’t go your way, you don’t get to call a do-over. Part of respecting our democracy is respecting the will of the voters.

Curtailing voting rights by dishonestly inventing widespread fraud has been a major part of the Republican Party‘s political strategy for a while.

That’s a compliment reserved only for politicians. You never hear someone say, ‘You know what I love about my accountant? He’s just a normal guy.’ That’s how low the bar is for people in politics.

I’m a Democrat because I want every American to have a fair shot at the American Dream. That’s what ties it all together for me, and in my experience, that means recognizing that no one is dealing with life one ‘issue‘ at a time.

Anyone can be something. Leaders want to do something.

A lot of states that pass voter ID laws have little to no evidence of in-person voter impersonation fraud, which is the only kind of fraud that voter ID laws could guard against.

I believe there should be political consequences for politicians who commit voter suppression.

He’s like a bizarro me. One of us is working for good, and the other is Kris Kobach.

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.

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 can protect the integrity of elections without stopping anyone from voting.

In the Army, I learned how to use and respect my rifle.

For far too long, Congress has been focused on the CEOs, the millionaires, the billionaires.

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.

To truly care about this country is to demonstrate that you care about her politics the same when you’re winning as when you’re losing.

Voter suppression is at the very core of the Trump re-election strategy.

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.

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.

As the state’s chief elections officer, it is my job to make sure that only eligible voters vote, but also that every eligible voter has the opportunity to vote.

I’m that dude from the ad about background checks where I put a rifle together blindfolded.

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 got 220,000 votes from people who also voted for Donald Trump. I did not do that by pretending to be a conservative Democrat.

I didn’t get into politics to play a character on TV.

In the state legislature, I supported Second Amendment rights.

I’m proud to be a Democrat, and I feel pretty strongly that the country would be better off with Democrats in charge.

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.

Voters are okay with you believing something they don’t believe, as long as they think you genuinely believe it, and you believe it because you care about them.

Voters are smart. They know the difference between a Democratic Party that wants their vote and a Democratic Party that believes in making their life better. They’ll forgive you for pushing a policy they don’t like as long as they believe you’re doing it because you genuinely believe it’s what’s best for the country.

You’ve got to tell people how it is that you’ve come to believe what you do.

With limited shifts, low wages, and scarce benefits, it feels almost impossible for many Americans to get their slice of the pie.

Let America Vote will make the case for voting rights by exposing the real motivations of those who favor voter suppression laws.

Voting in our country has never been easy, and unfortunately, it has never been guaranteed for everyone. But through the work of brave civil rights leaders, some of whom died for the cause, by the early 2000s we were at a point where most, but still not all, people who wanted to vote could do so.

I believe that if you make it harder to vote, then we should make it harder for you to get reelected.

No matter how many times the court shuts them down or how many Americans speak out to defend their rights, Republican politicians who stand to gain from suppressing voters won‘t back down. They’ll only change their tactics.

I believe in President Obama.

Senator Blunt genuinely sees everything through the lens of partisan politics.

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.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has been an adviser to Trump, although he still very publicly couldn’t land a job in the president‘s Cabinet, despite providing that counsel. And Kobach has a long history of making up facts to help him pass unfair voter suppression laws and push extreme anti-immigrant proposals.

My experience in uniform has shaped my life and informed who I am like no other, and it’s difficult for me to wrap my mind around the idea that I will no longer be a soldier.

We should be doing everything we can to make it as convenient as possible for eligible Americans to cast a ballot. People fought and died for the right to vote.

I launched more formal elections investigations than any secretary of state in Missouri history, and we didn’t get a single complaint about voter impersonation fraud – not one.

The sacrifices our warfighters make for us is simply astonishing in modern American society.

My wife is gorgeous and brilliant, and my son True is my best little buddy in the world.

We need Congress to do more than just engage in partisan games.

The Democrats need to be confident about making their argument… and making sure that everybody knows we care about them.

Politics, as a profession, is not about making the right political decision. It’s about making the right decision and then managing the political consequences.

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.

Americans are struck by lightning with greater frequency than they commit voter impersonation fraud, and that’s the only kind of fraud that photo ID requirements could have any hope of preventing.

When Democrats concede the idea that some voters are not our voters, we shouldn’t be surprised when those voters agree.

Frankly, a lot of candidates have no problem being sold to the highest bidder if it means they will win.

I thought of myself as a soldier who was going to law school.

Trump is doing the country a disservice making things up about the integrity of our elections.