All Quotes by Keith Ellison
“My faith and my identity as a Muslim - I never saw it as something that made my job harder. It's just an aspect of who I am.”
“Pragmatism is not always a good thing. Experience is not always a good thing.”
“Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.”
“I believe a message of solidarity, and economic opportunity, and prosperity is going to win out, and that`s what the Democratic Party stands for, and that is where we`re going to have our focus.”
“It's almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that. After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it and it put the leader of that country [Hitler] in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted. The fact is that I'm not saying [Sept. 11] was a [U.S.] plan, or anything like that because, you know, that's how they put you in the nut-ball box - dismiss you.”
“You approach faith with humility. You can have some idea, but it boils down to do you see religion as a club, or do you see religion as a path? Do you see it as a wall that separates you or do you see it as a bridge that connects you to God and other people? When you see it as a bridge, you aren't so worried about bringing others over to your side.”
“Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.”
“You approach faith with humility. You can have some idea, but it boils down to do you see religion as a club, or do you see religion as a path? Do you see it as a wall that separates you or do you see it as a bridge that connects you to God and other people? When you see it as a bridge, you aren't so worried about bringing others over to your side.”