Rachel Campos-Duffy Quotes

I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.

Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.

I have my chops in organizing, and I know how to create political space through movement building.

I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.

It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.

When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.

I think we should focus more, rather than less, on mobilising the middle classes. They often have a bit of time and money to contribute to change.

This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization.

I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups.

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

I think we're going to start to see a new model of civic advocacy where people get together once in a while to protest, but it's more about an ongoing, sustained engagement in issues, networks and communities about which people care.

I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.

And to all of your supporters here and around the country: I want you to know, I've heard you. Your cause is our cause. Our country needs your ideas, energy, and passion. That is the only way we can turn our progressive platform into real change for America. We wrote it together - now let's go out and make it happen together.

Government requires bringing people together and genuinely hearing their issues. It requires the establishment and strengthening of community.

Public service and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it.

There is nothing that says you can't be active and love your community and fight for your community and still do your job.

It's about being a voice in the community. There's so many ways to be a voice, and that's what I'm figuring out.

What it takes to get people from liking and sharing and retweeting to organising is a hard and long process. Technology has really changed the game in terms of how people participate and what they decide to participate in.

It's not enough to be anti-Trump.

I have recently taken on two major challenges: running the CHC BOLD PAC and serving Los Angeles as our voice on the Energy and Commerce Committee.

When things happen socially in our community, as artists, we've got the right to exercise our voices if we choose to, use our powers for good.

When I was 19 or 20, the way I was an activist was by regularly meeting with groups, going to protests, and being there on the ground.

I've always done party building and party fundraising.

I have spent my life fighting for the underrepresented and I am working tirelessly to be New Mexico's champion in Congress.