Elissa Slotkin

"[W]e need to get back to... fundamentals. The middle class is... essential... We need to grow and expand it. ...[W]e need to focus on... economic security... national security, and... democracy."

"I come from a world of war planning... of constant, prudent planning.... where you cant just play defense only. Theres no such thing as winning, in any operation or in any war, by just playing defense. What we owe the country is a strategy that does more than play defense."

"I would push and prod for... [a] unified approach... I was going to take my best stab at it... We have lots of ideas, lots of different voices, and so in order to keep that coalition together, people have treated each other very carefully and run party offices and the party apparatus by consensus."

"I really believe that the existential threat to the country is not coming from abroad. Its the shrinking middle-class at home and what that does to our stability here."

"If theres a threat coming from abroad or, you know, something happening, you have to call balls and strikes on that or else people can get, you know, deeply hurt."

"[M]ost Americans who voted for President Trump... did not vote for chaos. ...They didnt vote for cuts to veterans. They didnt vote for...tariffs. ...[I]n my state, it was an economic security vote. ...[H]e is gonna make you pay in every corner of your life. ...He may create a self-inflicted recession."