Tim Walz

I didn’t realize how much animosity there is here – we have a responsibility to the American public to work together.

We have a broken immigration system in this country.

It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

Nothing Minnesota has done to serve its own people stands in the way of the federal government managing border security and policies.

Nothing we do precludes them from doing their job.

No one here wants to hear these horrific stories. But we have a job to do on limited resources.

No one got everything they wanted.

That’s how we got into this damn mess! ’Cause we’re really cautious.

If you leave a void, Donald Trump will fill it.

It's a flagrant betrayal of the oath they took as lawyers.

Some would say, 'Boy, this is getting way too political for a commencement address.' But I would argue: I wouldn't be honoring my oath if I didn't address this head on.

This is what the crumbling of rule of law looks like in real time. And it's exactly what the founders of this nation feared: A tyrant, abusing power to persecute scapegoats and enemies.

Every single day, the president of the United States finds new ways to trample rights and undermine the rule of law.

Right now, more than any other time in my lifetime, we need you to live up to the oath that you're about to make. Because, I have to be honest with you: You are graduating into a genuine emergency.

It blew me away when he said 'I'm going to become good at volleyball,' and he did it.

Here's the thing that's so encouraging about human nature, the vast majority of people had [a positive reaction] no matter the politics.

We need to move as aggressively and as fast as Donald Trump has moved with our progressive policies.

This is not like running the car out of gas, and you can put gas back in it and it will take off again; this is like running the car out of oil.

The Democratic Party is unified — they’re unified in being pissed off at the Democrats.

You know where DOGE should take a closer look? Trump's Cabinet. None of the 83,000 caregivers Trump fired from the VA leaked classified information.

I will do anything possible to make sure that we win in ‘28. I do not need to be on that ticket.

I’m a catalyst to provide them a megaphone to lift up their voice.

I’m going to tell them that it doesn’t have to be this way.

I always feared that they would become apathetic after this last election and just check out, but they are not doing that.

There was just a primal scream of folks recognizing what’s going on with the Trump administration, their authoritarian tendencies, and what they viewed was a lack of a proper response from their representatives.