American - Politician | October 7, 1961 -
As Republicans try to trample on our most sacred freedoms, Democrats will do everything we can to end discrimination and protect the one right that preserves all others - the right to vote.
Tom Perez
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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.
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When you cut investments in worker training, you're cutting investments in the middle class.
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I am proud of our diversity, and when you attack the federal workforce, you are having significant impact on women - many of whom are single moms working to support their family - and you're having a significant impact on communities of color.
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If you're going to be a big tent party as we are, and you're going to help elect democrats who have generated support in their communities... the will of those voters is the will that we must respect.
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When you recruit good candidates and you have a good message and you have energy and organization and partnership, you always have a fighting chance.
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Infrastructure done right can help working people; infrastructure done wrong is just more money for private equity.
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You can't eat cake and lose weight.
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Michigan is a state we should have won in 2016, and we didn't, and I want to understand why.
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As I travel around the country, I am inspired by leaders who know that offering paid leave - whether sick time or family leave - isn't just the right thing to do: it's essential to building an economy that works for everyone.
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I believe the passage of a national paid family and medical leave law is not a question of if, but when. But as is so often the case on important public policy issues, we need states and localities to be the incubators of innovation.
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My parents didn't feel that they had any choice but to leave the Dominican Republic. They did, however, choose to become Americans, and they lived American values every day.
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