Quotes from Elissa Slotkin

I don't consider myself part of the Resistance because that's against something, and you have to be for something.

You know, because of my military background, I talk to voters who for the first two minutes think I'm a Republican.

I'm a former CIA officer and Pentagon official. I'm a deep believer in border security, but we have to be a nation of moral - of morals and, like, a moral core.

Between stagnant wages and the cost of everything going up - particularly health care and college tuition - people have less money to save and less money to spend.

As a newcomer to politics, I knew in my bones that we as a country were better than what we see coming out of Washington. And we are.

If people are going to donate huge sums of money to influence elections, we have the right to know who is donating, and this will also play a key role in helping to fight off foreign influence in our elections.

People feel overwhelmed by the news cycle, and by this nagging feeling that the kind of vitriol out of Washington is just not how we are supposed to act as a government, and as a nation.

Michigan has always been a swing state, so we understand that the goal is to have two political parties, debating the issues with empathy and respect.

Each week, I will release a public schedule of how I am spending my time, and who I am meeting with in my Congressional office.

I have a very politically diverse district.

I want to be very honest, that I believe impeachment is a very big step - I believe it is something that should not be taken lightly - and it has to be something where we bring people along.

I'm always going to have a strong preference for things that can actually pass into legislation. We can talk about big issues and have big goals while also working on pragmatic things.

I believe that in order for our democratic system to work as intended, the average person must have faith in their government. Citizens must believe that our system is working to represent them, and that it is capable of advancing issues like healthcare access, lowering prescription drug costs and improving infrastructure.

I worked for President Bush and President Obama. I had Democratic bosses and Republican bosses. I believe in order to actually get things done, we do need to buckle down and often reach across the aisle.

I come from a service family - I met my husband Dave during my third tour in Iraq serving as a CIA analyst alongside the military.

We obviously - I'm from Michigan, so we saw a disproportionate number of these social media ads targeting us, targeting our population. So I want to close that loophole. That's my amendment, so that no foreign entity can buy an ad for or against a candidate in our democracy.

In my district, I have a very clear mandate to work across the aisle.

My job is to represent my district. That's who I'm responsible to and for.

So, when I saw Congressman Bishop smiling at the White House after voting to gut protections for pre-existing conditions, something inside me broke.

The thing I get pulled over for in Kroger is the cost of health care and the cost of prescription drugs.

I am a Midwestern Democrat, which I believe means practical, reasonable, willing to work across the aisle and focused on the economy and the middle class, saving the middle class.

I ran for Congress as a first-time candidate to fight to protect everyone with a pre-existing condition, to bring down the skyrocketing costs of healthcare and prescription drugs, to fight for clean drinking water, and to help restore civility and decency to our politics.

Since Ronald Reagan we have had this assumption in the United States that the Republicans are the party of the military, the Republicans are the party of patriotism, the Republicans are the party of American values.

When I was working in the Pentagon, I had to own the recommendations I made up the chain of command.