Quotes from Jon Ossoff

I think international business experience is an asset in a congressional candidate, particularly in a district with so much international commerce.

Grass-roots politics, linking small-dollar fundraising to massive local volunteer organization, showed that it can rival the power of a right-wing machine comprising super PACs backed by entrenched interests and mega-donors.

I've been reaching out to voters across the political spectrum from the very beginning.

Anger is just not who I am, and I don't think it's what voters in the 6th district want. They want respectful, decent representation that contrasts so starkly with what we have in Washington.

Voting rights are constitutional rights.

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the partisanship, the gridlock, the pettiness, and the corruption.

There's a coalition of folks here in Georgia who want representation that's focused on local economic development and on accountability and not on the partisan circus in Washington.

I made it clear that I can run a positive campaign and do it better.

Both parties in Washington waste too much of your money. When I worked there, I helped expose waste and abuse by government contractors.

I'm pragmatic.

I want to see ISIS destroyed.

I don't support any increase in income tax rates.

News flash: The federal government is not the most efficient institution in the world. Taxpayers know that.

One of the rules of running for Congress is no matter where you go, you speak like you're speaking to the whole district.

I'm not that interested in labels or litmus tests.

I held top-secret security clearance.

As a national security aid, I worked with our military to strengthen our national defense.

I am honoured to have the support of so many strong and determined women.

I identify as a Georgian who wants to do right by Georgia.

I think we need a lot less ideology around health care.

What we need is a bipartisan commitment to improving the laws on the books, to lower premiums, to improve access and improve quality of care.

I try to shy away from labels and focus on the issues.

One out of four hundred and thirty-five members of the House is not going to transform the culture of the institution, but we've got to start somewhere.