Keith Ellison Quotes

I like fighting Tories... that's what I do.

This unprecedented racism, bigotry and proto-fascist agenda that Donald Trump is trying to shove down America's throat has unleashed the resistance that will dethrone him.

[Donald] Trump doesn't give up and let [the Democrats] have what they want. But people around Trump and some others in the world of politics do.

I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.

Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.

We won't back down! We won't be trumped!

I do believe that if millions of people do stand up and fight back, we can stop Donald Trump from doing some really awful things.

The real leadership of the opposition is never, ever gonna do anything but continue to ramp up efforts to stop [Donald] Trump or destroy Trump.

…I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I rather like the role.

I'm going to Congress to break down the doors of power.

A lot of people have sought to place me in the position as the leader of the anti-Trump movement. That is not something that I have aspired to. It's not something that I've requested.

We need to combat Trump's agenda to make sure he can't divide our families.

Donald Trump is out to destroy people's lives, and he's trying to take our democracy down. That is something we can fight with everything we've got, but having compassion for one another while we do it is going to get us a lot further.

We are organized, we are moving forward, and the Clinton machine may not like it, but we're prepared for the fight.

My father believed in armed struggle.

I'm not going to back down one bit in attacking Trump.

I think there's going to be a lot of Americans who are really willing to be much more active than they were before, because they're worried about where Trump is headed.

Come senators, congressmen, Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorway, Don't block up the hall, For he that gets hurt, Will be he who has stalled, The battle outside ragin', Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, For the times they are a-changin'...

We're going to continue to move forward and fight. I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.

The Republican Party's reacting now to the news of [Donald] Trump's dominance in different ways. For some, they are pushing resistance.

We are well aware of what Donald Trump has done in his first 100 days. And people are organized all over the place to fight back.

I am emboldened, not cowed, by the words and actions of Trump and his circle. I believe many others are as well. Together we will stand in opposition. I'm not going anywhere, and I won't be silenced.

We need to come together sometimes and show our strength, so that the Donald Trump administration at its 100th day is under no illusions that people are somehow in a fog. We know absolutely what this guy is doing, and boy, are we pissed off about it.

The more success [Donald] Trump has, the greater the energy poured into opposing him is gonna be. If you are thinking that at some point in these next four years that the opposition to Trump is going to lay down arms, so to speak, and join him, that's never gonna happen.

I don't want a job in the administration; I think I'm more effective carping from the sidelines.