Naomi Klein Quotes

If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.

Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the last many years of the Republican Congress.

We did 'Jack & Bobby' in the middle of the Kerry/Bush election. It hurt it a little bit. No matter what we did, everyone thought we were advocating for one person over the other. The stuff I work on is more about the people.

Republicans in the South could not win elections by talking about issues. You had to make the case that the other guy, the other candidate, was a bad guy.

There are certain elections where policy matters more than others….Personality without a platform will not cut it.

The establishment will do all they can to block him, so grassroots America's going to have to turn out in droves for Mr. Trump.

Almost everything I think we've accomplished for the good of the country has been because of liberals against conservative opposition.

I think the Democratic Party has to learn how to be a party of opposition.

Everybody runs for political office knocking somebody, and very few run on 'This is what I stand for. This is what I believe will solve these problems.'

I believe that our party, the Democratic party, must be a party that fights fire with fire.

The strategy of any party would be to see how best it can defeat the party in power.

I've always said the left needs to be ready for government.

I showed people Republicans in Florida can do more than talk.

Over the years, Democrats have had a lot of very talented individuals, but they have lacked fighters.

If you're running to be president of the United States, you can't just tell people you're going to make America great again. I think you need to begin to explain exactly how you're going to do it policy-wise. We're not going to win a general election with a candidate that refuses to detail policy.

For everyone that doesn't want to endorse Donald Trump or doesn't even want to support him, they should realize he actually has a connection to his voters.

Bush won the largest popular vote in history with a 3.5 million margin. Indeed, simply by getting a majority of the country to vote for him - the left's most hated politician since Richard Nixon - Bush did something rock star Bill Clinton never did. Bush maintained or increased his vote in every state but Vermont.

So my concern is that - what the campaign has to do is to pull those folks [negative to Donald Trump] out and make sure that they actually get to the ballot.

I disagree with much of what Hillary Clinton's fighting for. I do disagree with her judgment in many cases.

Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.

Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it.

The problem with Republicans and Conservatives is we attack each other.

We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.

It's the American way: if you don't vote, you don't get to whine.