John McDonnell Quotes

All politics is local.

On my show, I often discuss all the ways one can get involved politically on a local level, precincts, et al.

There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.

Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field.

I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.

My mother, she worked in the mayor's office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time.

We need to go everywhere. There is not one county in this state, I don't care how far west you go, that doesn't have Democrats. We have to be proud of who we are.

This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization.

I campaign all the time.

You never get to too big to phone bank, that's my opinion.

I met Hillary Clinton when I was a young lady working as an intern, and I can tell you she's been a progressive fighter all her life. And Bernie Sanders, I got to know him during campaigns on Capitol Hill, campaigns across this country. These are two wonderful, fighting souls.

Campaigning means talking to people in the street, it's important.

My earliest memory campaigning was going to the dump to get petition signatures or handing out literature.

I worked on congressional campaigns when I was a teenager. I did United Way fundraisers when I was a teen. We advocated; we spoke out. I protested the first Iraq War in college.

I've always done party building and party fundraising.

Local politics is just as important as national - and often easier to influence.

I am a party worker ant - always have been, always will be.

The first time when I was organizing, I went out and started knocking on doors to see if people were registered to vote. I was a door knocker. I didn't even have the confidence that I could register people, so I just was out there door knocking. That was my first experience.

You can do a lot things in the ensuing four years waiting to vote. You can drum up support or opposition.

As Bernie Sanders said himself, it's a movement, not a man. And that movement continues to move into our campaign.

My battalion motto in the Marines was, 'Whatever it takes,' and I'm going to do whatever it takes to help win back the House in 2018.

I am a full-time political worker.

It's very hard to complain about society if you don't get involved.

Incredibly, a typical town hall official spends 85% of their time satisfying ministers in Whitehall and a puny 15% of the day for local residents. We believe that this relationship is upside down.

I was born into the Labour party. I was delivering leaflets by the age I could reach the letter box.