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The main reason we've been the party out of power so long is we haven't had a good nominating process.

There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.

Party machinery is not a fortuitous development, but is the direct result of the requirements of practical politics. The necessity of nominating candidates for offices leads inevitably to the development of caucuses and conventions.

The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.

The voters of the country decide who they want to support, and the delegates are elected to also make a determination of who would be in the best interest of the party and the country to be our nominee.

One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn't it? The more things change, the more they stay the same.

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

It is more important to be a personality than a person who is in a political party.