“We need to not ever use the words ‘socialist’ or ‘socialism’ ever again because while people think it doesn’t matter, it does matter. And we lost good members because of that.”— Lucy Diavolo, teenvogue.com
“There are no saviors in politics; there are only people who are useful, and people who are not.”— Sarah Jones, nymag.com
“We need to do a lot of anti-racist, deep canvassing in this country. Because if we keep losing white shares and just allowing Facebook to radicalize more and more elements of white voters and the white electorate, there’s no amount of people of color and young people that you can turn out to offset…”— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, nytimes.com
“They will help shape how Ocasio-Cortez works as an activist hoping to refashion the Democratic Party, while she also tries to serve as a more typical member building coalitions and moving legislation.”— Jeff Stein, washingtonpost.com
“The Democratic Party is supposed to be the party that fights for the working class, and that's exactly what I do. I will stand with unions wholeheartedly, and that's the problem—the Democratic Party wants to say that, but their actions do not mirror that.”— Richard Ojeda, military.com
“That ours is a party of opportunity for everybody, no matter where you are from or who you are in the United States. And we are going to do everything we can to make sure people can pursue their American dreams. That is why you hear us talking about building greater schools and universities, making…”— Joaquin Castro, harvardpolitics.com
“We were down 10-15 points, and another white male wasn’t interesting the public an awful lot. So there was this very strong movement in America and in the Democratic Party, saying that the time had come to include women on the ticket. A bold idea—I hope some day that it will succeed. So we started e…”— Walter Mondale, emkinstitute.org
“The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while...I want you to quote this, the media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States... The elite…”— Steve Bannon, nyti.ms
“The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.”— Pat Robertson, transcripts.cnn.com
“There’s one spreadsheet called "Spreadsheet of All Things," and it includes all the major U.S.—all the major DNC donors, where the donations were brought in, who they are, identifiers, the total amounts they’ve donated, how much at a noted or particular event, whether that event was being pushed by…”— Julian Assange, democracynow.org
“Hillary didn't inspire me to join the Democratic Party, Bernie did, so it's hard for me to not imagine following Bernie wherever he goes.”— Ashley Wolthuis, bigstory.ap.org
“Mr. Trump has rendered useless the traditional rule books of American politics.”— Jim Rutenberg, nytimes.com