Ron Dellums Quotes

My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

People are realizing that the winning message is the progressive message.

I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.

Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy.

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

I'm a Democrat, and I think people who meet me will realize I'm a Democrat. I have progressive Democratic values.

You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

And I think we created something incredible as a Democratic group, as a platform, as an effort to make a change in the country, and I think we did change this country. And I think we will continue to, and I know that my father is not going to stop fighting.

I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

Vote Democratic. The party for you, not just the few.

I want to ensure that the Democratic Party moves in a more progressive direction, substantively and message-wise. And goes out and reaches people all over this country.

My parents were admirers of President Roosevelt and the New Deal. Their parents and most of our relatives and neighbors were Republicans, so they were self-conscious in their liberalism and took it as emblematic of their ability to think for themselves.

I think Millennials are more progressive, more socially progressive, much more concerned about economic issues that impact the poor and middle class, and so that basically shows me that the Democratic party will have a bright future.

There's a whole pipeline for where people recruit current Hill staff from, and it's people who go through a kind of ideological training that's incorrect, I'd say, and so there's a lot of work to do, and Justice Democrats is trying to figure out where it fits.

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.

The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties.

I'm a growth-is-good Democrat.

If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work.

I'm not that conservative. I do feel - I guess I'm more of a Democrat at heart, although I've never affiliated myself with a particular party.

I've been a Democrat all my life.

Whenever anybody gets involved in politics, its always exciting for me because we take for granted our freedoms and our abilities to effect change through political activism.

I'm a loyal Democrat.