Thomas Chatterton Williams Quotes

The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.

I think it's very important to always make sure that you're talking to the entire coalition and to as many Americans as possible; not to go chasing after one little group or another. The Democrats would bring new groups into their party and not notice that larger groups are going out the back door.

The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.

Our party cannot be all things to all people. It can't be. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's stop trying to curry favor with them.

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.

All Democrats recognize we do have differences because we are a big family.

The Left puts their stock in substance and lives on identity and figureheads. It will be the end of the Right to do the same.

I'm focusing on the issues that bring people together and build broad majorities.

We on the Left are very good at criticizing people, but we need to build the base to pull people to the Left.

I'm always looking for an opportunity to bring progressive Democrats together with some conservative libertarian types, because there are places where we can agree.

There's a false choice being put forward by some Democrats now. Either we double-down on our progressive values, or we go out there and talk about the middle class and the working class. I've never found them inconsistent. They go together.

The only way Democrats can govern in this country is by making common cause with moderates and independents.

For the Left, victimhood has long carried social currency.

I think the Republican party should be a broad party.

Class is something that I think seriously about and try to organise my politics around. I think there are lots of novels that don't really engage with questions of class at all, and they get less conversation about issues of social privilege than I do. But it's better to try and talk about it and maybe fail.

Being a people's party cannot mean being a kind of all-purpose political shop that offers something for everyone.

What the underdog socialist has forgotten is that the story of the left ought to be a narrative of hope and progress.

All political parties, if they are to be successful, have to be broad churches.

I hope you'll find that my campaign was a reflection of how I plan to govern - bringing people together, building coalitions, and finding common ground.

Americans want Washington to put aside political differences, find common ground, and start producing real economic solutions for the middle class.

Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.

Republicans need to unite to succeed.

The term bipartisanship, that's a means to an end. That's not something that I think you run on. I think you run on solutions.

The process of forming government in a minority is one where you talk to everyone and see: What do you have in common? And is there enough commonality?

I don't write off any political party. I believe in strengthening the BJP and winning elections and not depend on writing off parties.