Democracy Quote by Jessica Tarlov

I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.

— Rory Stewart

If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.

— Wen Jiabao

There's no question about it. If you look at the map, there's hardly any [Democrats representing rural districts]. There's me, [Rick] Nolan, [Tim] Walz,…

— Collin Peterson

Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

— D. W Brogan

There's no question that [Donald] Trump got elected because of rural America. And our party still is in denial. They don't get it.

— Collin Peterson

We need candidates who are deeply rooted in their communities, working-class people who understand the struggles their neighbors face. That is the future of…

— Richard Ojeda

We [Democrats] have become a party of assembling all these different groups, the women's caucus and the black caucus and the Hispanic caucus and…

— Collin Peterson

“Sometimes these non-wealthy non-Northeasterners (“white trash”) manage to stumble out of their shantytowns and trailer parks and Napa Valleys in order to vote, but…

— C.H. Dalton

We often hear the old adage 'it takes a village'; however we don't often stop to take an inventory of who the members of…

— Phaedra Parks

You can't have a majority party in Minnesota or throughout the country without [support from] the people in these [rural] districts. Given the position…

— Collin Peterson

There are certain districts where you need a pro-life Democrat to win.

— Dan Lipinski

Our message in rural America is just as powerful as it is in urban America. But because we haven't been a physical presence there…

— Tom Perez