Collin Peterson Quotes

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• I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake.

  Collin Peterson

  Lakes, Events, Red

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

  Collin Peterson

  New York, Historical, Tools

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• The banks run the place.

  Collin Peterson

  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

  Source: 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

  Source: 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

  Source: 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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• 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

  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.

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  Running, Party, People

  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.

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  Party, Winning, Trying

  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.

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  Republican, Redistricting, Lots Of Money

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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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

  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.

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  Organization, Government, Guy

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• NAFTA's been a big problem for sugar.

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  Sugar, Problem, Bigs

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It was clear that [the number] just kept growing, and there were no [Hillary] Clinton signs. People were fed up.

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  Numbers, People, Growing

  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.

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  Opposites, Two, Three

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We [Democrats] have become a party of assembling all these different groups, the women's caucus and the black caucus and the Hispanic caucus and the lesbian-gay-transgender caucus and so forth, and that doesn't relate to people out in rural America.

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  Party, Gay, America

  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.

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  Different, Want, Republican

  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.

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  Would Be, Opinion, Wonderful

  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.

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  Agreement, America, Needs

  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.

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  Issues, People, Support

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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