Collin Peterson quotes
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“The New York Federal Reserve is a tool of the big banks.”
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“The banks run the place.”
-- Collin PetersonSource : "In Crisis, Banks Dig In for Fight Against Rules". Interview with Gretchen Morgenson, Don Van Natta Jr., www.nytimes.com. May 31, 2009.
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“I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake.”
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“I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders.”
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“It appears to me that no one has learned a thing; that Wall Street is still operating as if 2008 never happened.”
-- Collin PetersonSource : "How Goldman Envy Destroyed MF Global" by Monika Mitchell, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2011.
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“The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas.”
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“I think we are starting to get some information that will allow us to get to the bottom of this, and I hope we continue to work on this until we get to the bottom of it.”
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“There's no question that [Donald] Trump got elected because of rural America. And our party still is in denial. They don't get it.”
-- Collin PetersonSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“The [Democratic] party's become an urban party, and they don't get rural America. They don't get agriculture.”
-- Collin PetersonSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“[Rural voters] have a different view of the world than people do in these urban centers.”
-- Collin PetersonSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“What's happened is the Republicans have been smart.”
-- Collin PetersonSource : "Why rural voters don’t vote Democratic anymore". Interview with Christopher Ingraham, www.washingtonpost.com. November 23, 2016.
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“So [Republicans] packed all the Democrats into districts, very Democratic districts. What that's done is made our party urban, more liberal, and so those people are doing what their constituents want. But that's not what my constituents want.”
-- Collin PetersonSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“I always run ahead of the ticket [compared to Democratic presidential candidates]. But this time there were a lot of people that just voted party line, a lot more than usual.”
-- Collin PetersonSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“I don't know how you change that. There's hardly anybody left like me in the Democratic Party in Congress. These districts have been so gerrymandered that, in most of them, a Democrat can't win. Somebody like me trying to start off today, he'd never get endorsed. Because I'm too conservative.”
-- Collin PetersonSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“Republicans have spent a lot of money redistricting and everything, getting control of these governorships and statehouses.”
-- Collin PetersonSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
#Republican Quotes #Redistricting Quotes #Lots Of Money Quotes
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“[People] don't like the government telling them what to do or telling them how to live their lives.”
-- Collin PetersonSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“I fought NAFTA when it passed; it has been a big disaster for us, in my opinion. If we can renegotiate that, it would be wonderful.”
-- Collin PetersonSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“Well, the sugar guys have been dealing with NAFTA ever since it passed. Now we've got Mexico dumping sugar that's subsidized by the Mexican government into our market in violation of the World Trade Organization, because NAFTA gave them open access to our sugar market. They claim they're not subsidized, but the government owns half the industry in Mexico.”
-- Collin PetersonSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“[Rural people] have a different lifestyle, and they don't want to change it. They're happy with the way things are. It's causing the party political problems.”
-- Collin PetersonSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“NAFTA's been a big problem for sugar.”
-- Collin PetersonSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“When it [NAFTA] was sold, we were supposed to get two or three times more exports to Canada or Mexico than they exported to us. It's been the exact opposite.”
-- Collin PetersonSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“If everybody in our caucus had a 50/50 [Democrat/Republican] district, we'd have a lot different discussion. But if they have a 90 percent Democratic district, they don't ever talk to a Republican, they don't have to and they don't want to.”
-- Collin PetersonSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“I agree with [Donald] Trump: These trade agreements have not been good deals for America, and they need to be fixed.”
-- Collin PetersonSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“[Bernie] Sanders tapped into that [trade issues]; that was part of his support. And then when he didn't make it, some of those Sanders people went to [Donald] Trump.”
-- Collin PetersonSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on.”
-- Collin PetersonSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
#Political Quotes #Political Correctness Quotes #Backlash Quotes
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