Quotes from Amy McGrath

We need to make meaningful, uh, adjustments, here in this country with criminal justice, with education inequities, with real racial inequities in terms of health care.

Every Kentuckian deserves to be able to visit the doctor and get the treatment they need, and no one should have to choose between filling their prescriptions and paying their rent.

I left home at 18, but I still voted in Kentucky. Every holiday, I came home to Kentucky.

Kentuckians voted for Donald Trump because they wanted to drain the swamp and lower prescription drug prices. A lot of what has stood in the way of what Donald Trump promised is Senator McConnell.

If you look at why many Kentuckians voted for President Trump, for example, they voted for an outsider. They voted for somebody who was gonna shake up the system. He promised to drain the swamp. And, you know, my message is you can't do that until you get rid of Senator McConnell.

You know, I think that with Judge Kavanaugh, yeah, I probably would have voted for him.

Frankly, voters in Kentucky really don't like both political parties.

You know, I would say that I understand why the voters in Kentucky voted for Donald Trump. They are tired of the swamp. They are tired of the dysfunction.

Voters are fed up with politicians like Sen. McConnell who show themselves vacant of any moral compass or patriotic courage, and whose public statements are guided by just one metric - which team you are on.

I'm not somebody who seeks attention.

In the Senate, I will put people before politics.

I'm not going to apologize for serving my country.

Part of that problem is women don't run. We don't run for office. It's not that people are overwhelmingly voting against us. We just don't step up to the plate. So we have to do a better job of recruiting women and getting women to step up.

Every Kentuckian, regardless of background, should have access to a job that pays a living wage.

Climate change is absolutely real and if you don't believe that you ought to believe every four-star general in our military is planning for it.

As someone who has been a Marine, how do you change things? You step up to the plate. And you are the one who says put me in.

America should lead in addressing climate change.

Well, you know, we train really hard before we go to combat, and so that, when we go to combat, we're ready to execute.

Mitch McConnell is not well liked. Many Kentuckians feel that he has left them behind, that he is a part of the D.C. sort of swamp, the system that has left so many Kentuckians behind, that is really dysfunctional.

You can't drain the swamp, as President Trump has touted doing, without getting rid of Mitch McConnell.

We need a senator who fights for things like affordable health care, college and technical school, not tax cuts for wealthy donors. That doesn't mean free college or Medicare for All, I'm against that.

We need a new generation of leaders who can put their country over their political party to do what's right for Kentucky and are not bought off by special interests.

I'm not a polished politician.

My childhood dream was never to be a politician.