Jason Kander Quotes

I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.

The health of a nation is not just about its consumption expenditures …. one of the things that makes America such a great nation, and why so many people aspire to this American ideal of middle-class security, is that it's about more than that. It's about more than how much you can purchase with the dollar. It's about this feeling of security and about being able to give your kids a better life than you had. And that is really the foundation—one of the major founding principles of our country

Helping parents to meet the everyday costs of raising their families, helping them lift themselves up to create a better life for their children and keeping them safe is what motivated me to get into public life, and it continues to drive me every day.

If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be.

We must work to help all families and all communities realize their dream of a better future.

My grandmother's generation and generations before always saw beyond the horizons of their own lives and their own circumstances. They believed that opportunity created today would lead to prosperity tomorrow.

I bow to no one in my ambition to see Glasgow be as successful as it possibly can be.

The principle business of government is to further and promote human strivings.

A community is business, education, and housing. Without those, the community suffers.

I sign this bill for my daughters, and all those who will come after us, because I want them to grow up in a nation that values their contributions, where there are no limits to their dreams and they have opportunities their mothers and grandmothers never could have imagined.

If you know a better place to live right now than this country, get a ticket and try to get there.

The American people are complaining of a pitiful lack of leadership. No one offers any program which promises even a return of former good times, much less any that satisfies the people's legitimate demand for a new kind of prosperity, a stabilized prosperity — steady, trustworthy and sound.

What people want is their basic needs. So I'm trying to help people ensure their basic need: that means food security, healthcare, education, and job opportunity and a better life.

I think everyone wants for their children a world that's better than the one they came up in.

Each generation looks to its children to keep our society moving and to make life better.

In my experience, all Americans - Republicans, Democrats, and everyone in between - want roughly the same thing: an assurance that if they work hard, they can create a better life for themselves and their families. They want to feel safe in their communities and secure in their future.

What would ultimately de-escalate the challenges of society would be for people to get educated, especially for more women to be educated because when more women are educated, they invest much more of their time and income in ensuring that the next generation would perform even more than they have done.

Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.

The fact that anyone lives in America is the single reason poverty is never a death sentence, and transforms it instead into - at worst - an obstacle on the path to a better life and road to freedom and success.

Compton is my city.

I think for all of us who call East St. Louis part of our heritage, we want to make a better day for the city.

Government is not just about maintaining the status quo. It's about helping people's lives to work.

It's our instinct to want to acquire a better lifestyle for ourselves and our families.

I want my kids, my grandkids to have a great life.

I have three girls, and that makes me think more about what sort of country I want my kids to grow up in.