33 Quotes by Saikat Chakrabarti

People are realizing that the winning message is the progressive message.

There's a whole pipeline for where people recruit current Hill staff from, and it's people who go through a kind of ideological training that's incorrect, I'd say, and so there's a lot of work to do, and Justice Democrats is trying to figure out where it fits.

The reality is, our problem isn't that more people are voting Republican than Democrat - our problem is most people who would vote Democrat aren't voting.

Obama tried to make deals with Republicans, and I don't think he realized he'd have such an insanely opposing Congress.

It's not at all a secret that I was one of the co-founders of Brand New Congress, and we've never tried to hide our goals.

Running on corporate-PAC money is a huge liability.

People focus on the labels when they are not sure what they mean. What people call socialism these days is Eisenhower Republicanism!

I think the Right did us a service calling Obama a socialist for eight years. It inoculated us.

When you shoot for big stuff, you stay true to the movement. You fight unapologetically on the inside; that is a very, very powerful way to pass the radical solutions that are necessary to face the radical problems that you have.