Howard Dean Quotes

Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.

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.

The Republican Party views Hispanics in terms of market share: Who are they? How do we reach them? Democrats still view us in terms of quotas.

I became an MP in 2017 and have been around to watch Liberal Democrat party membership soar.

In Shahjahanpur, there was not much of a political fight. It was my family constituency and I knew all the voters and their problems and needs.

We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were targeting delegates and still trying to talk to people, which is what keeps me going as a human being.

To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on the Democratic National Committee were batting around different possibilities. I said, 'We should have boot camps.'

Through time and dedication, we will make it okay to be a proud Democrat in the South once again.

I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election.

I'm on the ground, I've been in swing states, I've been talking to the American people, I've been out there speaking on behalf of Obama's record, I've been in the trenches.

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

My job is to reach out to 8 million people whether they voted for me or not.

Trace out also individuals in every region, inform yourself about them, seek them out, secure that in their own districts they shall canvas for you, and be, as it were, candidates in your interest.

You should be strenuous in seeing as many people as possible every day of every possible class and order, for from the mere numbers of these you can make a guess of the amount of support you will get on the balloting

Republicans lobby; Democrats march.

I ran for chairman of the Democratic Party to win elections.

Democrats in 2020 can't just drive by red counties. You have to stop, get out of your car, ask for people's votes, and engage with them on issues that relate to their lives.

I'm going to be fighting to rebuild the Democratic party no matter what. I'm going to be fighting to make sure the Democratic party is known among working people that we are their champion no matter what.

Low turnout in off-year races is always a challenge for Democrats. Many of our voters require information and must be contacted way ahead of Election Day - and reminded of what's at stake.

The Leave side can only win if we have an effective ground campaign comprising of activists from across the political spectrum working together.