Marcy Winograd Quotes (12 Quotes)

We need to ask ourselves, what organizations do I belong to, do they endorse political candidates, if so, what is the process Am I worth being heard in that process

Right now in this country we have an incredible gulf, a chasm between the leadership and the peoplea complete disconnect. A majority of Americans, Democrats and Republicans, want the U.S. to end its occupation of Iraq. They want the troops to come home.

This is a primary to recapture the soul of the Democratic party of Bobby Kennedy and the Civil Rights movement.

What is the logical extension of the argument that it's wrong to ever under any circumstances reveal classified information What happens if we live in a police state, and people are disappeared off the street, or people are tortured and we know about it Who are we serving, are we serving Bush or the people.

I actually made the decision to run after seeing the interview on Meet the Press, when she said she didn't know the law as she sat on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

If I had been in that position, I'd have said, here's a copy of the Constitutional and the Bill of Rights. You are in violation, and you need to stop this immediately. I certainly would have broken the story. At some point you have to blow the whistle when people are breaking the law, spying on Americans, in violation of the federal wiretapping law.

Even after the fact, she said it was deplorable that the American people knew.

We picked up 35. So it sent some shock waves for the Democratic Party in California. This isn't to say she won't get it later, but it sent a message that there's less than full confidence in her leadership.

It sound farfetched but we have people who've been sitting in prisons right now without charges, sitting there for years.

There are a lot of people who are hungry for real leadership.

Her voting record is primarily of support of the Patriot Act, suspending of due process, support for nuclear weapons, opposing the International Criminal Court.

The vast majority of Americans want to see the end to the US occupation of Iraq. There's increasing disenchantment. My campaign is to represent that sentiment, and the real concerns of Americans about health care, and the needs of a single-payer system of universal health care.