Ron Dellums Quotes

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.
I want balance in my life.
If Ron Dellums running for mayor gives you hope, then let's get on with it.
If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.
If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.
Basic human needs like food cannot be corporate questions.
Being a mayor was an awesome, difficult job. Being the chair of the Armed Services Committee was perhaps the most incredible time in my life, because I got up one morning, and the peacenik from Berkeley was chair of the Armed Services Committee, and it was the greatest - one of the great challenges of my life.
Companies using public lands should be required to perform thorough testing on all wells in order to fully ensure water safety.
Detroit's financial challenges - the decline of the American auto industry, the impact of the global economic recession, declining population, and an erosion of the municipal tax base - are key to understanding what led this great city to an inability to provide basic city services or to carry out the normal functions of a municipality.
Economics should not drive you out of the community.
I am so blessed that I have been able to live long enough to see a woman nominated for president.
I have been a lot of 'firsts' on the national political stage, including the first African American congressman from the Bay Area and one of the first Democratic Socialists in Congress.
I have long maintained the military budget is not a jobs bill... and will continue to support the lowest budget possible.
I think democratic socialism will ultimately prevail in this country because it makes an enormous amount of sense.
I was part of the peace movement and part of the civil rights movement. You know what we heard? 'The majority of people don't support you.'
If being an advocate of peace, justice, and humanity toward all human beings is radical, then I'm glad to be called radical. And if it is radical to oppose the use of 70 percent of federal monies for destruction and war, then I am a radical.
If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have taken guitar lessons.
I'lI say this: I recall entering Congress in 1971 and being called a 'feminist' by members of my own party as if it was a dirty word. They didn't realize that I wore that label as a badge of honor.
I'm just a guy. If you hit me, I hurt, and if you cut me, I bleed.
Let's make Oakland a model city.
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24 November, 1935
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30 July, 2018
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