Kevin de Leon Quotes

If you had the opportunity to cast your vote for speaker, would you vote for Nancy Pelosi?

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work.

If Americans want President Trump to be successful, we must retire Speaker Ryan.

I think that all women should consider running for office. What's happening now is just horrifying. With the people we have - with the person we have in the president's office, with so many of the people we have in Congress - we need more progressive women in office. At all levels. From city councils on up. We need women to run. I encourage women to run

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon.

Bernie Sanders is a serious person with a lifetime of consistent campaigning on principle.

My father, while touring Ramanathapuram, came to know about my affiliation with the BJP when newspapers carried articles about the new faces of the party.

I've assembled a team with a broad variety of experiences to lead my Senate office.

I was an extreme leftist-anarchist. Now, I guess I'm a European socialist who's locked into American citizenship, without complaint.

You have to govern like you've got a majority. It doesn't matter whether it's one seat, five or 10 seats.

I don't really regard myself as a political figure.

When you think about the progress and the progressive issues we are tackling and solving in Miramar, I'm looking to take these issues nationally because the American people need someone who can champion these issues for them.

If we don't send people to Washington who, first of all, have done something more than talk for a living - which is what many politicians have done - nothing gets done.

In my heart of hearts, I truly believe that Senator Bernie Sanders is the right man to lead this country.

I can't see the point in being in politics if you're not yourself. If you're simply interested in implementing other people's policies, then you should become a civil servant. If you have ideas and some form of ideology, then it's exciting because you can argue forward.

I ran for Congress to give Kansans a real voice in Washington, D.C. - not to let our priorities be drowned out by special interests.

Joe Biden had a shot for eight years in the Obama administration to do great things for this country and we didn't see a whole lot come out of that.

I've always been political.

If I think of all the family members, I was probably the only one who was excited with the possibility of my dad's entering public office.

Elective office is one of many ways to serve the community and the country. It's one that I would consider at some point.

I am proud to be a progressive.

When it comes to politics, it's nice to be mired with Sarah Palin. But I'm Paul Gosar. I'm my own person.

This left-wing kind of speech, the Robin Hood thing that Pablo had, of course he was a criminal and a mean person, but it wasn't a false. He wasn't false. I don't know what kind of president he would be, maybe a very bad one, but I am sure he would do things for poor people - popular things that wouldn't solve their lives but would help them.

You become a senator not by being passive but by being active, and all of a sudden, we've got a whole group just deciding to sit on their palms.