Jason Kander Quotes

I signed up for military service in the months following 9/11, and later, as a military intelligence officer, I felt called, like so many others, to volunteer for deployment and service in Afghanistan.

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

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

Doing things right in politics is no different than doing things right in life: Tell the truth, be yourself.

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.

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.

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.

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

I believe in President Obama.

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

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.

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

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

The president is in charge of the military so that a single individual – accountable to Americans – is responsible for its successes and failures.

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.

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

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

The secret to adulthood is that 99% of the time, you actually know the right thing to do. Adults make it hard when they are deciding whether to do the right thing.

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

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.

Whether it’s intentional or not, Trump regularly makes news for unprecedented and nonpresidential behavior.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

Voter suppression anywhere hurts our democracy everywhere.

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.

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

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’ll be working every day to help elect voting rights champions in Missouri and around the country.

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

You don’t get to recall a senator just because you don’t like her or just because you want the seat for your own party.

To improve the standard of living for working folks, we have to raise the minimum wage and empower workers to fight for their interests in an economic and political system that’s stacked against them.

Politicians never say never to anything.

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.

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 love this country, and I won’t let losing an election force me away from the process.

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

In the state legislature, I supported Second Amendment rights.

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.

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.

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