Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums

So here comes this black guy from the Bay Area talking about peace, feminism, challenging racism, challenging the priorities of the country, and talking about preserving the fragile nature of our ecological system. People looked at me as if I was a freak.

Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums

The very foundation of our nation's economy is predicated on the health, growth, and vitality of our local communities.

Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums

The government ought to be in the business of delivering health, education, housing, and basic services to people without a lot of game playing. There ought to be comprehensive childcare, a comprehensive approach to housing, a sane, rational way to finance education. But I also strongly believe in the notion of fundamental individual freedom.

Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums

If Ron Dellums running for mayor gives you hope, then let's get on with it.

Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums

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.

Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums

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.

Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums

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.

Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums

I have long maintained the military budget is not a jobs bill... and will continue to support the lowest budget possible.

Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums

The Democratic Party has been my party over 50 years, where I waged my battle to change America and change the world from its progressive wing.

Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums

I'm just a guy. If you hit me, I hurt, and if you cut me, I bleed.

Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums

Peace is more than simply the absence of war; it is the absence of conditions that give rise to war.

Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums

Companies using public lands should be required to perform thorough testing on all wells in order to fully ensure water safety.

Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums

If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have taken guitar lessons.

Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums

If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.

Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums

I want balance in my life.

Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums

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.

Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums

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.'

Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums

I think democratic socialism will ultimately prevail in this country because it makes an enormous amount of sense.

Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums

The government should not do everything for everybody all the time, but it should provide basic services to everyone who needs them. Education ought not be contingent on income or where you live. Neither should health.