Quotes from Jason Kander

As the state's chief elections officer, it is my job to make sure that only eligible voters vote, but also that every eligible voter has the opportunity to vote.

Doing things right in politics is no different than doing things right in life: Tell the truth, be yourself.

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.

Voting in our country has never been easy, and unfortunately, it has never been guaranteed for everyone. But through the work of brave civil rights leaders, some of whom died for the cause, by the early 2000s we were at a point where most, but still not all, people who wanted to vote could do so.

You can protect the integrity of elections without stopping anyone from voting.

I'll be working every day to help elect voting rights champions in Missouri and around the country.

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

With limited shifts, low wages, and scarce benefits, it feels almost impossible for many Americans to get their slice of the pie.

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.

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.

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

The president is in charge of the military so that a single individual - accountable to Americans - is responsible for its successes and failures.

The military is a group of people that come together from different perspectives and backgrounds and places and get a job done because they have a mission.

Campaigning ain't tough.

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

When one donor can account for more than 70 percent of a candidate's money, there's obviously something wrong with the system.

I'm that dude from the ad about background checks where I put a rifle together blindfolded.

In the state legislature, I supported Second Amendment rights.

Politicians never say never to anything.

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.

I believe in President Obama.

If I had the opportunity to give President Trump any advice, and I had to boil it down to one thing, I suppose it would be that nobody ever got better at any job by blaming everybody else whenever anything goes wrong.

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.

The Democrats need to be confident about making their argument... and making sure that everybody knows we care about them.