Keith Ellison

If you can make a movie, make one. If you can sing a song, sing it. If you can write a play, write it. If you want to run for office, run. But do something to make this world a better place.

When you're a leader, you cannot ignore parts of your constituency, even if you know they're not going to vote for you.

Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more.

Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.