A biography for Jason Kanderhasn’t been written yet.
“I think that it's a good thing that you want to be part of making the world a better place, including between nine and five.”
“My wife is gorgeous and brilliant, and my son True is my best little buddy in the world.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“He's like a bizarro me. One of us is working for good, and the other is Kris Kobach.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When one donor can account for more than 70 percent of a candidate's money, there's obviously something wrong with the system.”
“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.”
“You've got to tell people how it is that you've come to believe what you do.”
“I'm proud to be a Democrat, and I feel pretty strongly that the country would be better off with Democrats in charge.”
“As a former Captain in the Army National Guard, I trained hundreds of soldiers to lead troops into combat.”