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  1. “Did yeah, I felt that that was the most powerful way I could do what my parents taught me, what my faith taught me, which was to help others, to do more for others and to try and Repair the world a bit. And I started running for the state house in a district that was overwhelmingly Republican. And David, I'll never forget this. I went to my first event in the community and they let my opponent give a speech and they wouldn't let me speak, right? And I came home that night and so up. Right. It didn't seem fair. I said to my wife, I said. Wouldn't let me speak. This is crazy. I'm running for office against them. And she said, Well, you better go figure out a better way to get people to listen to you. She's very blunt with me, very tough with me.”

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  2. “And called my wife, who I'd been with since the ninth grade. We had a little baby girl at the time. I said, it's time to go home. Let's go home to our community where we grew up. And a couple months later, went back home and joined a law firm in the city of Philadelphia and a month or so after that started running for the State House of Representatives because I wanted my views to be out there. I wanted to meet people in my community. I wanted to help them. I thought that was the best. So you knew when you were...”

    2019-02-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 305 - Josh Shapiro · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “While I was working on the hill as a chief of staff, and it was an incredible experience until one day after walking my boss to the floor of the Congress and kind of whispered in his ear what the bill was that we were going to be voting on that day, I turned around and took my BlackBerry off my hip holster back then we had these big hip holsters.”

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  4. “I could run unopposed and I could win. So I ran, I won, and actually like just a month or so after, I won't bore you with all the details, but I organized a student protest about some decisions that the university administration had made. And at the end of my freshman year of college, got elected student body president. And then from there, studied political science and went right after college to Capitol Hill. I figured I'd go there for a year. I'd have the experience and maybe go to law school or something. One year turned into nine years on the hill. I was a hill chief of staff and then went to Georgetown Law School at night. And that was really, I think, what crystal we were.”

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  5. “Yeah, yeah, right, exactly. I mean, it was, I couldn't believe it. That night, someone knocked on my door and said, hey, you should run for student government. I'm like, student government, why would I ever want to do that? I had zero interest in is not what I was focused on. And he pointed out to me that I had literally nothing going on in my life and that I”

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  6. “And that's what I was going to do. And on one day, my freshman year of college, I showed up to one of my pre-med classes to learn that I had flunked the class, even though I had worked really hard. The professor said, look, it's clear you studied. I'm just not sure that your brain is wired that way, was feeling incredibly depressed, but realizing that I could still be a basketball player and maybe realize my dream of going to the NBA.”

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  7. “Didn't I'll share a quick story with you. In fact, I was invited back to be a commencement speaker at the University of Rochester Malma Mater, and I shared this story then. My freshman year, I went there to be a doctor like my dad, who had such a big impact on my life, to play basketball, believe it or not, short Jewish guy like me could actually play basketball. Taking your word for it.”

    2019-02-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 305 - Josh Shapiro · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “A little bit over the years, and he's doing well married family. And I'm just happy for him and all of the other kids who eventually were released in her. That was my first opportunity to be an advocate and to see the power of engaging in your community, engaging in the world around you, and having something meaningful happen as a result of it.”

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  9. “They described the hardships. They described the life that seemed inconceivable to me that lacked freedom. I grew up in the United States of America with these incredible freedoms. I couldn't imagine what it was like to live that way. And we lobbied, we advocated, we went on TV and the radio and talked about these kids. And we were actually eventually with the help of elected officials and other activists able to get this Avi Goldstein, a 12 and a half-year-old boy and his family freed from the Soviet Union just a couple days before I was to have my Bar Mitzvah at 13 years old in suburban Philadelphia. And we were able to raise enough money to get him to come and stand next to me and have this Bar Mitzvah together. It was extraordinary.”

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  10. “We did. Every so often we would get letters back, and sometimes our parents or other parents would be able to go visit and sneak letters back. And so there was a little bit of that relationship. I do skip described.”

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  11. “With other kids to the United States Senate to lobby giants like Senator Joe Biden, and I remember Senator Arlen Specter and remember, you know, Senator Mitchell and Dole and got to talk to them about these kids that were trapped in the Soviet Union”

    2019-02-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 305 - Josh Shapiro · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “Yeah, all over the United States, into Canada, a little bit in Europe, to write thousands of letters to these what were called then refusing refusing kids. And I got my first opportunity to be a lobbyist, right? Not a registered one. I want to be, I want to be clear, but to go and not a paid one. And not a paid one, but to go as 11, 12 year old kid.”

    2019-02-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 305 - Josh Shapiro · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “The Soviet Union at the time, right? You know, they couldn't play Little League. They couldn't go to their synagogue. They couldn't eat pizza when they wanted. They didn't have the same freedoms that I had as a typical 11-year-old. And that really upset me. And it made me want to do something about it. And back then, we didn't have email. We wrote letters. And so I organized kids.”

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  14. “It was really extraordinary. I mean, look, this is part of growing up in a home where your mom's a school teacher, your dad's a pediatrician. Your faith is central to who you are. They teach you about giving back to your community. And I just remember being about 11 years old and learning about these kids who were my age, Jewish kids, living in the former Soviet Union Who weren't able to now in my world, these were important things because it was the plate.”

    2019-02-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 305 - Josh Shapiro · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “I would not vote for Barr, period. I think typically presidents should enjoy great deference on their nominees. I often say, look, elections have consequences. And so if you don't like the outcome of the election, you're not going to like maybe the ideological views espoused by a nominee for a particular cabinet position. That's not really what we should be looking at. We should be looking at their qualifications, their ability to do the job. So I'm less focused on the views bar has on certain issues where I would likely disagree with him and more focused on can he do the job? Can he be above reproach? Can he demonstrate a consistent respect for the rule of law and have others have confidence in the rule of law under his leadership? And it strikes me that, you know, the way he opined on the Mueller investigation does a great disservice to his nomination.”

    2019-02-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 305 - Josh Shapiro · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “By the president and presumably confirmed by the Senate does a disservice to the rule of law and it causes me concern. That being said, if he's confirmed as the Attorney General, I'll work hard with the Department of Justice as I did under general sessions, who believe it or not, had a good working relationship with. And I think it's important that the Justice Department get away from the way it's been politicized and be more independent. I'm hoping Barr can do that.”

    2019-02-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 305 - Josh Shapiro · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “Well, look, he wouldn't be my pick. And not just for ideological reasons, but I think when you make statements like that, particularly in these times, that should be cause for concern for any chief executive who's making a nomination and for any senator who has to vote on it. The reality is our law enforcement needs to be above reproach and our rule of law in this country when it is viewed by people on the left and the right as being something that is sacrosanct and strong. We are all safer for it. When people think law enforcement or our intelligence services or the military is becoming politicized, we are all less safe. And no matter who the occupant of the White House is, whether they're Republican, Democrat, left, right, we are all less safe when the rule of law is undermined. And so I think having someone like that who has espoused those views being propped up.”

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  18. “I could tell you that the three U.S. attorneys and the FBI and the other authorities in Pennsylvania that I deal with are great partners, and we work very, very closely with them. I think Rod Rosenstein is a good man who cares deeply about these issues and leaving, but I hope that when... General Barr, or soon to be Attorney General Barr, comes into office, he'll prioritize this notwithstanding some of the destructive comments that the President of the United States has made.”

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  19. “And we could raise any issue we wanted. This was the issue I raised about hate speech, and I often say hate speech begets hate crimes. And I talked about, or I asked him about how we can get our state and federal law enforcement partners to work more closely together on dealing with these issues. And the president's response was sort of stunning. He talked about how, you know, you got to be careful because sometimes the reverse can be true. And, you know, kind of his alluding to the fact that there's always another side to these things.”

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  20. “A dramatic increase in the number of reported hate crimes and hate incidents in Pennsylvania we brought on the first ever chief deputy attorney general for civil rights just to focus on that kind of work. And in fact, I had an opportunity with my fellow attorneys general to be in the White House and to talk with the president.”

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  21. “There's a number of reasons for that. I think the president bears some responsibility, not only through the direct words that he uses, but perhaps more importantly, he allows his words to be misappropriated by others who would want to do harm to someone just based upon what they look like, who they pray to, where they come from, who they love. That is incredibly dangerous when the leader of your country is allowing those words to be used that way. You combine that with communities being more divided than ever before, not understanding one another, not understanding what it means to walk in one shoes or sit in their seat. And we have a situation that is really toxic. It's interesting, David, you know.”

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  22. “Understand, but it is who I am. And so together with my family, my faith really grounds me and helps keep me focused on what matters.”

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  23. “Faith is critically important to me, I think, really for two reasons. Number one, together with my wife and our four kids, it grounds me and it constantly reminds me about what's real and what matters in life and your requirement to serve others. And second, there's so many wonderful passages you can pull from any religious text. But for me, the one I not only think about every day, but I talk about a lot in public speeches and what have you is that scripture teaches us no one is required to complete the task, but neither are we free to refrain from it. And that, to me, is the essence of my faith, which is a requirement to do for others. Maybe not solve the ultimate problem, but to advance the ball, to move things forward to help others. I draw on my faith. I speak very openly about my faith. Even in communities where being Jewish may not be something that folks typically recognize or understand.”

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  24. “But one of the reasons I got involved was because I remember vividly watching my dad go and testify for the prosecution in child abuse cases in the community where we grew up. I remember my dad having a hand in starting the first child advocacy center for abused children in our community. Those things affected me in really extraordinary ways. Actually made me want to be a pediatrician like my dad until organic chemistry came. But anyway, those are memories I have that I drew upon that as we were going through this clergy abuse effort.”

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  25. “It's amazing. David, I can remember going with my dad to a clinic where he was taking care of poor, underserved kids in kind of suburban Philadelphia and in the Philadelphia area. And I later learned in life he wasn't really getting paid for that. That really wasn't his way of making a living, but that was his way of giving back, of caring for those who were less fortunate. And then to meet those folks later in life when I was actually running for office and trying to help them in my way of helping was pretty extraordinary.”

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  26. “Let me tell you, the first time I was running for office for state representative in 2004 knocking on doors, more people wanted to talk to me about my dad and how he took care of their kids than cared all about the policy positions I was there to talk about.”

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  27. “No, the Shapiros came over, they fled. Communism and they fled persecution in town, many of them in a town of communist adolsk, which right now is in the country of Georgia, was in the Soviet Union, came to Philadelphia. They came over in the late 1800s. My parents grew up in Philadelphia, typical Philly family. Mom went to Girls High, Dad went to Central and met after, you know, in the college time and got together, and thank God they did. And they have three great children. Well, at least I think my siblings are great. I don't know. That's still up for debate Debate. And we're all living still largely in that area. But they're so critically important to me and they're wonderful people. Mom was a Philly public school teacher. Dad was the and still is the pediatrician to nearly everybody in our community and everybody knows.”

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  28. “Got PC optimum points? Visit Shopper's Drug Mart for the bonus redemption event and get more for your points, Friday, July 17th to Wednesday, July 22nd, Vallot in-store and online. And now from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the ACE files with your host, David Axelrod.”

    2019-02-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 305 - Josh Shapiro · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source