Democracy Quote by Emanuel Cleaver

[Democratic National Convention] was high, it was exciting. The hotel that I stayed at, they had music in the lobby and [Hillary] Clinton life…

— MC Lyte

It is day two of the Democratic convention, and apparently they had a huge lighting problem in the convention hall today. They worked all…

— Jay Leno

“If tonight teaches us anything, it is that convention has held us back. We have bowed at the altar of caution and we have…

— Zohran Mamdani

So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he…

— Michael Beschloss

It just felt like all the excitement in the world was in the building [at the Democratic convention].

— MC Lyte

But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions…

— William Shatner

Conventions are, by nature, a party. I mean, that's why people become delegates. They come from all over the world to exercise their democratic…

— Rob Lowe

“The Democratic convention that took place in Chicago in late August turned out to be such a wild and bloody affair that the first-ballot…

— James T. Patterson

So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century…

— Michael Beschloss

If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major…

— John Dingell

The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded…

— Mary Quant

One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed there was…

— Noam Chomsky