Quotes from John Fetterman

On my left arm, I have the zip code 15104. That's Braddock, Pennsylvania, my home and the community I was honored to serve as mayor for 15 years.

A place deserves somewhere to eat lunch.

I decided that I wanted to spend my career fighting inequality rather than making myself more comfortable.

The fact that somebody that looks as unfortunate as I do sometimes would be an American taste god by the Bible of American taste, you know, I didn't see that coming!

Being completely neutral, Joe Biden would be all but impossible for Trump to beat.

Unions sustained and fed the middle class. It's no coincidence that as union membership has continued to dwindle, so have the fortunes of the middle class.

If there's ever a boot that comes down to the union way of life or some other kind of arrangement or some kind of corporate interests, I'm always going to come down on the side of the unions.

Republicans are consistently right-to-work and they want to eliminate unions or destroy the union way of life.

Universal background checks and closing existing loopholes can prevent prohibited purchasers, such as convicted felons, the dangerously mentally ill and domestic abusers from accessing guns.

I am so proud to be the Mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania - a storied steel town I like to say built half the world.

I'm proud that my family and I live across the street from a steel mill and a union hall. This is where my wife and I want to raise our family, not in a mansion.

You can't lock away a problem and throw away the key. I don't know if it's an unpopular view or a popular view, but it's the truth.

I mean, there's certainly unreachable people in either party that will never vote Democrat or Republican. That's a fact.

We can't say, 'Science, science, science,' and then say, 'Except in unrealistic climate talking points.'

We use art to combat the dark side of capitalism.

One of the things I believe in most strongly is the power of a second chance.

You're guaranteed to have outcomes you like and outcomes you don't like in a democracy.

I'm in the camp that says that if you're to the right of South Dakota on anything, you should use that as a moment to recalibrate your core values.

How can we let students go to school everyday in an environment where they're afraid to be verbally or physically bullied? We are better than this, which is why we need to keep moving forward.

In my years in public service, I have advocated for reforms to our unforgiving and vindictive legal system.

If we start treating addiction as a public health issue, with more compassion, and without the criminal element, our society will be better off and violence and public safety will improve as a result. We'll also be taking a big step in taking down the prison-industrial complex that disproportionately harms communities of color.

For a lot of people, most of their exposure to politics and politicians involves events on the campaign trail, interviews on cable news, or seeing a viral tweet here or there. But day to day, there's so much more than anyone sees.

You can't live in a town like Braddock and not know exactly what gunfire sounds like.