Quotes from Tom Perez

The labor movement is our brother's keeper! The labor movement is our sister's keeper!

Donald Trump is anathema to America.

Frankly, what we need to be looking at is whether this election was rigged by Donald Trump and his buddy Vladimir Putin.

Hillary Clinton is about 'we.' Donald Trump is about 'me.'

The differences between Secretary Clinton and Donald Trump in terms of temperament, in terms of values, couldn't be more stark.

We're the party that has fought for Medicare. We're the party that has fought for Social Security. The Republicans have tried to privatize Social Security and voucherize Medicare.

Michigan is a state we should have won in 2016, and we didn't, and I want to understand why.

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

Federal government has been a gateway to the middle class for people of color for generations.

The employers who do best are employers who reject these false choices. It's not a zero-sum world where you either take care of your workers or you take care of your shareholders. You can do good and do well, too.

We need bold leadership to bring America back to its first principles of diversity inclusion and opportunity for everyone in every ZIP Code, and music is that vehicle to summon our better angels. Music is that vehicle and always has been a vehicle to challenge us to build a better America.

We can't understand what we've accomplished on civil rights without telling the story of Bayard Rustin. And now, we must write the next chapter in the American civil rights story by drawing strength and inspiration from his moral courage.

It's not only inhumane to treat Puerto Ricans as second-class citizens. It's deeply un-American.

From the new hate crimes law to the repeal of DOMA and 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' to the emerging popular support for marriage equality, we are making progress at breakneck speed. As someone who has dedicated most of my career to civil rights law, I am deeply moved by this sea change and proud to have done my part.

Responding to a natural disaster is a complex problem.

Post-military service can be a period of anxiety and uncertainty. So many men and women return and ask themselves: what now? The Labor Department is here to help answer that question with an array of programs designed to clear pathways into the middle class.

Secretary Clinton is tough, smart, and understands better than any candidate the challenges that parents are talking about around dinner tables and keeping families up at night.

I was in the U.K. and Germany and went to Volkswagen and learned about their apprenticeship model - young people become paid apprentices in trades. It's not a coincidence that youth unemployment is far lower in Germany than the United States because there are paid opportunities for young people to get experience.

I've heard the argument that unemployment benefits somehow act as a disincentive to the long-term unemployed when it comes to looking for work, but the opposite is true. Unemployment Insurance serves as a powerful incentive for people to keep searching for jobs, rather than drop out of the labor force altogether.

Extending emergency unemployment benefits isn't just the right thing to do for our families - it's the smart thing to do for our economy.

We have to have a conversation where we bring in all the stakeholders and say, 'What is the vision of the Democratic Party?'

Civil rights activists and union activists shared not just common values and objectives but also common enemies.

Budgets are moral documents. They reflect the values of any government and when you're compromising clean air, clean water, and lead, you're making a statement about communities you don't care about.

When the federal government imposes a mandate on the states or supersedes a state policy, conservatives often rise in protest.