Candidate Quote by Ari Fleischer

Grass-roots politics, linking small-dollar fundraising to massive local volunteer organization, showed that it can rival the power of a right-wing machine comprising super PACs…

— Jon Ossoff

The models that the other parties have used where you have a very powerful leader squashing any kind of independent ideas from the grass…

— Caroline Lucas

It is my hope that the establishment part of the Democratic Party will heed what the grass roots is saying.

— Nina Turner

You need a Democratic Party which is a grassroots party, which makes decisions from the bottom on up, not just from the top on…

— Bernie Sanders

What a grassroots party is about is people getting excited, getting involved in the local political process, saying, we want our candidate to run…

— Bernie Sanders

Too often, the Democratic Party has been split between its grass-roots activists on one side and its elected officials and party leaders on the…

— Jim Hunt

We're here to let the Democrats know that the grass roots and the anti-war movement elected them to create change.

— Cindy Sheehan

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is,…

— Adlai E. Stevenson

I think [ unpopular presidential candidates ] indicates, at least on the Democratic side, that we've got more work to do to strengthen our grassroots networks.

— Barack Obama

I think our party and particularly our movement, the conservative movement, does have more of a problem with con men and charlatans than the…

— Ann Coulter

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance…

— Jim Hightower

It is my preference that the Democratic Party leads us forward in a way that is about standing up to special interests, in a…

— Katie Porter