Donna Brazile Quotes

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

The smoking gun is that we're interviewing somebody who is involved in a cybercrime and not calling him a criminal.

Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy. They'd rather take pictures with black children than feed them.

Why you? Because there is no one better. Why now? Because tomorrow isn't soon enough.

If everyone likes you, it probably means you aren't saying much.

A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.

We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.

We are victims of - the DNC and other institutions are victims of a cybercrime led by thugs.

Isn't horrible weather great? It means I don't have to wash my car!

Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.

Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights.

When I look around me, I can't help having faith.

Every member of my family was displaced by Katrina.

I you don't value your time, no one else will.

I inspired a new generation in the same way the previous generation inspired me. I believe that our democracy itself is very inspiring.

If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

It's almost like a renaissance of racism we have.

We put up the very best cyber security - what I call infrastructure to stop them, but [hackers] constantly [didn't stop].

The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country.

No one is demonizing or even saying anything as intemperate as Donald Trump has said about blacks living in squalor conditions.

There's no question that Donald Trump has had ample opportunity to distance himself from the kind of racist language that comes from some of his supporters.

I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave me my first job in politics.

We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.

Just got off the phone with my health care provider asking them to explain why my premium jumped up. No good answer!

[Donna] Brazil warned the campaign that [Hillary] Clinton might face a question over lead poisoning during a CNN primary debate, showing her partisan ties.

[Donna] Brazile was giving [Donald] Trump no quarter.

We have taken appropriate steps to ensure that we have the safest possible system. We're working with federal officials.

We know from the company we hired, Kraus Stripe , that there was Russian involvement in this to destabilize not just our institution, the Democratic Party, but our democracy itself.

I'm not here to talk about bigotry in the sense that I don't know what's in Donald Trump's heart. I hope that it's a heart of compassion.

Trying to gin up political violence for its electoral utility is - I think inarguably what we're seeing here. And I know that the Donald Trump campaign will not say that is what they're doing.

[Donna] Brazile had sent an email to a top [Hillary] Clinton aide the day before the town hall warning of just that question with almost the identical wording.

We cannot excuse the fact that he [Donald Trump] is running for president. He's a frontrunner.

The Democratic Party would like to see an open independent bipartisan investigation [about hacking].

When I saw the president [Barack Obama], I was a little disappointed that, you know, we were under constant attack. We never felt comfortable.

[Hackers] did not stop. They - they came after us absolutely every day until the end of the election. They tried to hack into our system repeatedly.

The economy is most important. It is off track.

Donald Trump has not held an event in the black community. He has not gone to a black church, as Hillary Clinton has done.

The nomination of John McCain is another milestone. So whether black, women, or bald, yes we can.

It has been a long march to equality. We have cracked the door, and opened the window.

Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.

Shirley Chisholm is another one [political hero]. She was a dynamic speaker, and the first black woman to run for President.

I know people have embraced Donald Trump. He may not have embraced them. But he has every - he should distance himself. This sort of alt-right movement is very disturbing.

No one is spreading any kind of rumors or saying anything about Donald Trump supporters or, for that matter, the supporters of Ted Cruz and everyone else.

I got to stick with what I know [about The Clinton Foundation]. I'm not an official of the State Department.

CNN says it did not share its coverage materials with any candidate, party or campaign and says it was completely uncomfortable with [Donna] Brazile's involvement with the [Hillary] Clinton camp.

People are human beings.If you are nice to me, than I am nice to you. I live by my mother's advice, which is that the Golden Rule is the way to go.