Nina Turner Quotes

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.

I am inclined to believe that it would be easier to build a new party than to save the Democratic Party from itself.

I think the Democratic Party has got to make fundamental choices.

The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.

There is a severe shortage in our country of political parties where internal democracy is alive and kicking.

Over the years, Democrats have had a lot of very talented individuals, but they have lacked fighters.

Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society.

I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.

The Democrats complain; I choose to compete.

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

Republicans lobby; Democrats march.

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary. This is because, in party politics as in other matters, it is the party membership that dictates the language, and the membership relinquishes the ideas it has been given more readily than the words it has learned..

The two old parties … fight only for office. Observe how utterly both parties in this respect lack program and new leadership.

Every time there is a wave of new people coming into a political party, there has been an attempt to keep them out.

Caucus

Our American elections have been fought between parties which, roughly, have represented the forces advocating change and those preferring stability.

Democrats need an organizer who will energize the grass-roots across this country to build the party from the bottom up.

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

What I don't like is when people don't like the establishment, they don't like the current government, they combat that by saying 'I don't like politics.' Go out, have your say, vote against the government. It's the most important thing.

Because Bernie is going to bring in progressives and not lobbyists and people who are pro-corporate... for the establishment of the Democratic party, Bernie Sanders was more dangerous than Donald Trump.

I profoundly believe that the Democratic Party is the only vehicle we have to put a check on Donald Trump.

We're here to let the Democrats know that the grass roots and the anti-war movement elected them to create change.

The Democratic Party is DEAD.

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.