Trump Quotes by Collin Peterson

What's happened is the Republicans have been smart.

— 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

Republicans have spent a lot of money redistricting and everything, getting control of these governorships and statehouses.

— Collin Peterson

The only thing I can think to do is if the Democratic Party can do what the Republicans have done, which is…

— Collin Peterson

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

— Collin Peterson

I agree with [Donald] Trump: These trade agreements have not been good deals for America, and they need to be fixed.

— 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

There's no question that [Donald] Trump got elected because of rural America. And our party still is in denial. They don't get…

— 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

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

Try to un-gerrymander these districts so that you're not packing all the Democrats into one district, so you've got districts that are…

— Collin Peterson

There's no question about it. If you look at the map, there's hardly any [Democrats representing rural districts]. There's me, [Rick] Nolan,…

— Collin Peterson

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…

— 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

I don't know how you change that. There's hardly anybody left like me in the Democratic Party in Congress. These districts have…

— 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

The [Democratic] party's become an urban party, and they don't get rural America. They don't get agriculture.

— Collin Peterson