"We had Jesse Ventura in Minnesota win the governorship, nobody thought he was going to win. I'm telling you, stranger things have happened."
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"I think that Donald Trump picked on people's fears, their anxieties and he gave them somebody to blame, and some folks just really turned out for him for that."
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"Do you have the vision to help empower and channel the energy at the grassroots level?This is not about one person; this is about millions of people all working together to protect and advance the interests of working Americans."
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"We need to invest at the local party unit and focus our energy on turn out. That's how we come back, and we can come back."
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"We've got to build a durable relationship of trust with voters around the things that they are most concerned about."
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"Publicly criticizing people, even when I don't have the facts, is not that good of an idea."
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"I'll just say, you know, over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot."
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"If you ignore somebody's record and only focus on something that happened 25 years ago when all they were doing even then was trying to stand up for a minority group that felt excluded and discriminated against, then I don't - I think that is a distortion of a person's record. I mean, a person's record is full, not just the parts that you want to use against them."
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"I didn't pay close enough scrutiny to some of the other things that Louis Farrakhan was saying, that's something I just live and learn."
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"Hopefully folks will look at the good things that I've done over the years, you know, my 10 years in Congress, my 12 years in state legislature, my many years of community organizing for the environment, for police accountability, for criminal justice reform, economic empowerment, trying to fight for small-business people, all these things."
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"We need young people to be involved, and we have to expect that young people are going to be impatient, they don't want to wait, and they've got new ideas and new ways of looking at problems."
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"I hope what we can talk about is something that happened, you know, within the last 25 years, the things that are relevant to our country right here, right now, including all people, fighting for the rights of working people, fighting for the rights of people struggling for dignity and respect in our society."
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"I'm happy to talk to anybody about anything."
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"What I'm saying is we [Democratic Party] need to get much more granular."
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"I'm not here to cast aspersions on anyone. I'm trying to unify the party, not find fault."
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"People feel like there're two systems of justice, you know? Over there at Wells Fargo, you know, you had the scandal going on there, but the CEO leaves with a big, giant package. And other folks get in a whole lot of trouble for doing a lot less. The truth is that we have got to make America work for working people again."
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"Trump is trying to tell all of us Americans that we are our own problem, not him. And that's not true. He's the problem."
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