Dalton McGuinty Quotes

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

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Too often, the Democratic Party has been split between its grass-roots activists on one side and its elected officials and party leaders on the other. It's important to remember: We need both wings to fly.

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats - in the optimistic hope that the dying embers of its status as the party of our better angels, one that took risks for social justice, can still be fanned into a flame. But I'm an old man, born in 1969.

It is more important to be a personality than a person who is in a political party.

In the Democratic party they call the people who lost the last election losers. In the Republican party, we call them the next nominee.

You've got to be optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one.

Politics: a Trojan horse race

It is my hope that the establishment part of the Democratic Party will heed what the grass roots is saying.

You have to listen to people that have chosen the nominee of our Republican Party. I think it would be foolish to ignore them.

If this [national Democratic Party] is a national party, sushi is our national dish. Today, our national Democratic leaders look south and say, "I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell."

The Democratic Party is DEAD.

My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.

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

I will continue to work with the Republican Party to try to encourage primaries.

Polls can change; people's opinions can change. Voting intentions can change, and I think it would be a silly leader, a silly political party, that would assume that we have it sewn up.

In the U.S. - and elsewhere - successful parties need a storyline that voters can relate to, an intelligible plot of some sort, especially now that so many older, formal ideologies have lost force. For proof of this, one has only to look at Margaret Thatcher's career and ideas.

If the party is a broad church, then it only has one priest. It was my job to keep it united and at the same time to ensure that I transform it into a modern liberal party.

My father was a Democrat.

I was a booth worker of the BJP. I rose to become the party president.

I mean, I got reelected in 2016. Donald Trump took Montana by 20 points. I won by four. Twenty-five to 30% of my voters voted for Donald Trump. And that's not, for me, changing who I am.

I ran as a Democrat. I am a Democrat. And, frankly, the values that I hold, I think, are consistent with the values of the Democratic Party. In fact, I think they are the values shared by the majority of Floridians.

The Republican Party is a composition of the members of the party and not just the leadership.

I am a mere filmmaker. I am not even aligned to any political party. I vote for the Congress party, and I root for the Congress ideology, but I am not subject to the Congress party.