People Quotes by Collin Peterson

So [Republicans] packed all the Democrats into districts, very Democratic districts. What that's done is made our party urban, more liberal, and…

— Collin Peterson

[Rural people] have a different lifestyle, and they don't want to change it. They're happy with the way things are. It's causing…

— Collin Peterson

It was kind of interesting: [People] didn't really want to talk about it too much. And then after the election, it's kind…

— Collin Peterson

I always run ahead of the ticket [compared to Democratic presidential candidates]. But this time there were a lot of people that…

— Collin Peterson

I heard a lot about the Affordable Care Act, too. About how people in the individual market were getting clobbered with all…

— Collin Peterson

You can't have a majority party in Minnesota or throughout the country without [support from] the people in these [rural] districts. Given…

— Collin Peterson

[Bernie] Sanders tapped into that [trade issues]; that was part of his support. And then when he didn't make it, some of…

— Collin Peterson

Pushing gun control drives people [in my district] crazy, gay marriage, abortion, deficit spending.All of that stuff adds up to be a…

— Collin Peterson

[People] don't like the government telling them what to do or telling them how to live their lives.

— Collin Peterson

[People] think [the government is] coddling people, like when people's feelings are hurt at the colleges and they send somebody in to…

— Collin Peterson

We [Democrats] have become a party of assembling all these different groups, the women's caucus and the black caucus and the Hispanic…

— Collin Peterson

[Rural voters] have a different view of the world than people do in these urban centers.

— Collin Peterson

Some of the people in my caucus, some of the people in the state party in Minnesota have basically said, "We don't…

— Collin Peterson

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

— Collin Peterson