John Adams Quotes

As a Democratic member of Congress, I have a vote at the Democratic National Convention as a superdelegate.

The way to help this country is to limit Republican power.

A caucus is basically an undemocratic method of selecting a candidate.

The 2008 battle in Iowa for the Democratic caucus was perhaps the most titanic single nominating contest in the history of modern politics.

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

The good thing about having a Republican primary is that the voters will decide our nominee - unlike the Democrats.

I think it would be an extreme poverty indeed if there weren't more than one person willing to compete for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.

I chaired the 1982 Democratic Party Commission on Presidential Nominations that created certain automatic delegates to the Democratic convention - the 'superdelegates.' It was a good idea then, and it is still a good idea.

The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

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

I have never understood the Iowa caucus.

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

He [Jimmy Carter] can't win the presidency. I don't even know him.

… to get the Republican nomination for President, you have to be an outsider.

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

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

So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.

My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.

Originally, the main purpose of the convention was to determine who the party would have as the presidential nominee and the vice-presidential nominee.

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee.

I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.

I want to caucus in Iowa. I'll caucus all over the state. I don't caucus in California. You don't caucus where you live. It doesn't look good.

Now, national conventions are largely an excuse for companies and party leaders to throw parties for delegates to attend, to network and have a good time.