Jason Kander

“Americans want to be represented by the best candidate, not the one with the richest friends.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Unions continue to be important for raising the standard of living for working Americans, whether or not they happen to be in a union.”

“We have to be willing to engage ISIS militarily, economically, and even on the Internet without delay. For instance, I think we waited too long to engage al-Qaida and the Taliban in Pakistan. And we should not make a similar mistake with ISIS elements throughout the world.”

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

“Democrats fell in love with the idea that winning elections was a matter of talking to voters about the one issue we think impacts them, instead of our plan to move the country forward as a whole.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”