Ron Dellums Quotes

#1. If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.

Ron Dellums

#2. The only real conflict I've had in my life was not with others but with myself

Jay Phoenix

#3. I want balance in my life.

Ron Dellums

#4. [I will] totally dismantle every intelligence agency in this country piece by piece, nail by nail, brick by brick

Ron Dellums

#5. To learn something new every day is still exciting!

Ed Koch

#6. When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever.

James Martineau

#7. There are some guys I know for a fact, like Louis C.K., who always talk about how not-great of an actor he is, and he's terrific on his show. But I know Louis would play a fantastic dramatic role in something, too. He just needs somebody to grab him and say, 'Come in here and do this.'

Denis Leary

#8. It's time for somebody to lead all of America's niggers . all the people who feel left out of the political process.

Ron Dellums

#9. Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

Ron Dellums

#10. If Ron Dellums running for mayor gives you hope, then let's get on with it.

Ron Dellums

#11. I'm not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.

Jerry Spinelli

#12. I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

Ted Turner

#13. If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.

Ron Dellums

#14. I wake up to my three dogs and my wife in bed and the kids, and those are the best gifts that I have.

Mike Ness

#15. We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But dim or clear, we own in Him The life, the truth, the way.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#16. She thinks she knows who I am because she thinks who I am is who she tells me I am.

Melina Marchetta

#17. I have two things going for me. The first is the fidelity to my principles, and the other is my ability to show up for the fight every day. Period that.

Ron Dellums