101 Quotes by Keith Ellison

I would really like to hear somebody who is really articulate about the elements of their faith conversion. I'm not.

My faith and my identity as a Muslim - I never saw it as something that made my job harder. It's just an aspect of who I am.

Faith really should be a bridge, not a wall. Because at the end of the day, we should be focusing on what you believe, not what your religion is.

I understand the risks associated with being a soldier. But I think as members of Congress, we should not intensify the chance that we'll have to commit troops to a military conflict unless it's absolutely necessary to defend the nation.

I think that anybody who is going to be the standard-bearer, the spokesman for the progressive movement, in the context of a presidential race, has got to learn to master the language and really get their finger on the pulse of how people are feeling. I think that's really important.

I'm not a scholar of Islamic history or jurisprudence or anything.

I've never gotten up in front of a Muslim congregation and played the role of a religious leader, and I decline those invitations because that's not what I am.

When I hear about these terrorist ideologies, they are completely foreign and strange to me. I mean, to me, it's, like, antithetical.

The United States' job is not to police the whole world.