Quotes from John Fetterman

Pennsylvania, like every other state in our society, has to begin to adopt and refine the idea of mercy and redemption for our criminal populations.

Climate change is real, and we need to work on a comprehensive approach. We eliminated sulfur dioxide in the air, and got rid of acid rain. We got rid of lead in gasoline. You can achieve these things when the private and public sectors work together.

I've said to workers that I don't care what you agree with me on politically - I hope it's as many things as possible - but one thing that you and I absolutely agree on is that your right to organize, your right to a good wage, your right to benefits, your right to participate in the value that your hard work creates.

If you think that people can change... and, if they've grown and they've expressed contrition or regret, that they should be given a chance, then you should vote for me.

I have plenty of relationships with progressive groups. And I've run as a progressive before it was cool to do so.

Equity everywhere is worth fighting for.

I'm so happy about Biden. I love a boring president. It's such a relief. You just have so much more confidence in our government.

Republicans need to get honest about confronting climate, but Democrats need to get honest about energy.

I'm a GQ fashionista, imagine that? I don't take it seriously.

From my perspective, we must create an equitable path forward to energy independence, not only from foreign countries, but also independence from fossil fuels.

If we turn our backs on the remaining industries and not reinvest in these places and just say 'You're on your own,' we will lose an entire generation of people that have no other options, other than to turn to somebody like Donald Trump and say, you know, 'Wow, he at least gets me. He at least cares. He at least pays lip service.'

Community partnerships need to be formed between law enforcement organizations, residents, schools, child-support services, prosecutors, religious leaders, businesses and other members of our society.

We must fall on the side of de-escalation every time.

For Americans living in places like Braddock, I believe the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is perhaps the last, best chance to help overcome the injustice and harm that the decades steeped in a laissez-faire orthodoxy have wrought.

We should transition away from carbon-based fuels, but that is not something that you can just flip a switch metaphorically, no pun intended, and start immediately like banning fracking. It's a transition.

Yeah, I'm quiet and introspective.

My dad was a union grocery worker in ShopRite in Reading. That helped keep the family together while he went to college. He ended up graduating and got a job as an underwriter and then transitioned into the agency side in York, Pennsylvania, and eventually became successful, at least certainly in comparison to his parents.

We've made some incredible progress, but there are still steps we need to take to ensure LGBT Americans are treated as equal citizens.

The Black Lives Matter movement has brought to the national conversation many of the inequalities I've worked to confront here in Braddock. I'm so grateful it has because we need to realize that as far as the way America treats African-Americans, black lives don't matter in this country.

I moved to Braddock in 2001 and started a program to help local youth earn their GED and find jobs.

I would implore any 'Bernie or Bust' supporter that we can't let this country go the way of Donald Trump.

I'm not a social butterfly.

It's ludicrous that someone can be fired from their job, refused care at a hospital or denied housing because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

When you have the president arguing that there was mass voter fraud in the absence of any evidence whatsoever - I mean, literally zero - what's to stop anyone from saying so-and-so's a so-and-so?