Top 105 Quotes & Sayings by Jason Kander - Page 2

Ground troops... have to be a last resort. I think they should always be a last resort.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

I believe in President Obama.

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.

Since winning the election, Donald Trump has jump-started voter suppression efforts at the federal and state levels.

Politicians never say never to anything.

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.

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 obviously did not volunteer to go to Afghanistan solely to protect the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.

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

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.

If we all work together, then we can save the American Dream from the nightmare that is Donald Trump.

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

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

Campaigning ain't tough.

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

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

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.

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 could work with anybody. This is why we need more veterans in Congress.

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

Really, Donald Trump's entire message is that people like Sen. Blunt are the problem.

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.

This country is a place that you've got to stay invested in.

Not everyone who goes to Washington becomes Washington.

In the state legislature, I supported Second Amendment rights.

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

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

There are states with photo ID requirements that don't disenfranchise eligible voters.

Voters aren't asking to be pandered to and aren't asking to be tricked.

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

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

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

Climate change is a real consequence of human activity and we have a moral obligation to address this challenge. That means reducing carbon pollution and accelerating our transition to clean energy, not only to protect our planet, but also to ensure our national security.

I'm a big believer in you make your argument to everybody, and you do it in a way that is real and very candid. Even if people don't agree with you, they appreciate that you're telling them what you believe and they know that you care about them. That's I think a very important part of it that sometimes gets missed, is that people will be OK with you saying something they're not totally on-board with as long as they know that you believe it because you want to help them. That means you've got to care about everybody.

Whether you have a hundred friends on Facebook or whether you're on TV or whatever, at every level, everybody has a platform. We all have a responsibility, given what's going on, to speak using that platform as much as we can, and to engage. Whether that's calling members of Congress, marching, getting involved locally, getting involved with Let America Vote, or if all you can get done during the day is you see the news and you want to make sure your hundred friends on Facebook know what you think about it, that is a really important part of this.

When we talk about something like student loans, what we should be talking about is the fact that every American wants their kids to do better than we have done. If we can get that, the other thing we'd really like is for our kids to be able to come home and raise their kids in the community where we raised them. What unites all of us, no matter where you live in the country, is we want our family to be safe, we want the next generation in our family to be more successful than us, and we would like our family to be close together.

We have so much access to one another through technology and everything else, that we're very much used to people being real. When folks go on TV and they're basically acting - if they were good actors they'd be acting and paid for it for a living, but they're not good actors. When we see bad acting, it doesn't look like bad acting, it looks weird, and we are turned off by it. I'm not talking about anybody in particular, that's just politics right now. This generation, I feel like, has incredible bullshit detectors.

I've always been somebody who, I stand up for what I believe, and I say what I believe, and that has always worked for me. In Missouri, this is always going to be the case, people are just tired of folks saying what they think they are supposed to say or whatever.

A lot of people will say to me, they'll say, "When is Trump going to be gone?" People who are thinking that way and are waiting, for those folks I worry that every day when they wake up and Trump is still president, every day is November 9. That's not a good headspace to be in. It just happens to be the case that the best thing you can do to feel better is to be actively engaged in pushing back, and that also happens to be the best thing that you can do for the country right now.