Jeff Merkley actually said...

"We should be shaping policy to create a fighting chance for everyone."

"That sentiment crushes aspirations because students who absorb that lesson, it is the opposite of what I heard from my working class father which was, Go through those school doors and work hard."

"no Government program can compare to the value of a good living wage job."

"I feel like if that were true, we would have all the jobs we could possibly want right now since that is where an enormous concentration is, at the very top."