Collin Peterson Quotes

• Estoy personalmente entristecido y aturdido por los trágicos sucesos ocurridos en Red Lake.

  Collin Peterson

  Lakes, Events, Red

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• The New York Federal Reserve is a tool of the big banks.

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  New York, Historical, Tools

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• The banks run the place.

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  Running, Historical

  "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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• 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.

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  Party, America, Denial

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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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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  Party, Leader, Independence

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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.

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  Wall, Streets, Stills

  "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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  Country, Use, Rural Areas

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• The [Democratic] party's become an urban party, and they don't get rural America. They don't get agriculture.

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  Party, Agriculture, America

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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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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  Thinking, Information, Starting

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• [Rural voters] have a different view of the world than people do in these urban centers.

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  Views, People, Different

  Fuente: 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.

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  Running, Party, People

  Fuente: 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.

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  Party, Winning, Trying

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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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.

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  Party, People, Done

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Los republicanos han gastado mucho dinero en la redistribución de distritos y en todo lo demás, consiguiendo el control de estas gobernaciones y cámaras estatales.

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  Republican, Redistricting, Lots Of Money

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• What's happened is the Republicans have been smart.

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  Smart, Republican, Happened

  "Why rural voters don’t vote Democratic anymore". Interview with Christopher Ingraham, www.washingtonpost.com. November 23, 2016.

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• [People] don't like the government telling them what to do or telling them how to live their lives.

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  Government, People

  Fuente: 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.

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  Partido, Gente, Política

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Some of the people in my caucus, some of the people in the state party in Minnesota have basically said, "We don't want to deal with these guys because they're too conservative," or "We don't agree with them on social issues."

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  Party, Issues, People

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• You can't have a majority party in Minnesota or throughout the country without [support from] the people in these [rural] districts. Given the position [the Democratic Party] has taken, it's very hard to see how you can do that.

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  Country, Taken, Party

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The only thing I can think to do is if the Democratic Party can do what the Republicans have done, which is go in there and take control of these legislatures and governors' areas.

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  Party, Thinking, Done

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Try to un-gerrymander these districts so that you're not packing all the Democrats into one district, so you've got districts that are competitive, so that you've got a shot at electing Democrats. But that's more a long-term proposition, if it can even be done.

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  Long, Trying, Done

  Fuente: 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.

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  Issues, People, Support

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• [Trade] was clearly a factor.That was a complete reversal of where things are normally at. Usually Republicans are all for free trade.

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  Republican, Trade, Reversal

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It was kind of interesting: [People] didn't really want to talk about it too much. And then after the election, it's kind of like they've been unleashed.

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  Gente, Interesante, Quiere

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on.

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  Political, Political Correctness, Backlash

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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