Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer Quotes

I believe I can lead this party from the front as a campaigning organization.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

Let me say this as your incoming chair of the Democratic national committee: I promise you, my friends, I commit to all Americans, that we will have a party that you can be proud of. We will elect Democrats up and down the ballot.

Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi are our star campaigners. Our party will fight under their leadership.

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.

I have got everything which a politician needs.

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now.

My firm belief is that people who aspire to public service should have the best advice up front, as they decide whether to run and the people decide whether to support them.

The right kind of leader for the Labour party is a desiccated calculating machine.

I want to run this party like a campaign—not a bureaucracy.

It is the business of the President as party leader to do the best he can to see that the declared party platform purposes are translated into legislative and administrative action.

Party leaders must have not only the confidence of the party, but the confidence of the people.

The Congressional leadership has to reflect the current feelings of their party caucus.

When you are not running for office, the people in the party listen to you more.

There are very good people in the Labour Party who I would like to see in leadership.

Today, campaigning isn't an 'interruption' but a permanent condition. Indeed, if you are a successful campaigner, it's expected you'll be a successful president.

I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.

What's important is that, come the general election, people think the right things of you. They think that you've got the right values and the right policies. And that you're the right kind of person to lead the country.

I felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high social influence, a lot of dynastic power, and I knew that I didn't have any of those things.

I try to be in the office as much as possible to get the full experience working with volunteers, making phone calls, putting out signs - things that the communications director probably normally wouldn't do.

In presidential campaigns, experience as a candidate is an invaluable asset.

When I first started campaigning to become an MP in 2004, we were suffering as a party because our hierarchy and leadership were totally detached from the party's membership.

This is what my calling is now. I'm here to try to help our party.

Part of my mission, if I have that opportunity as leader, is to take Sinn Fein on.