Quotes from Ron Dellums

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.

I have been a lot of 'firsts' on the national political stage, including the first African American congressman from the Bay Area and one of the first Democratic Socialists in Congress.

We want Nelson Mandela and the people of South Africa to know that we will stand shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip, until apartheid is eradicated.

Let's make Oakland a model city.

The government ought to be in the business of delivering health, education, housing, and basic services to people without a lot of game playing. There ought to be comprehensive childcare, a comprehensive approach to housing, a sane, rational way to finance education. But I also strongly believe in the notion of fundamental individual freedom.

Economics should not drive you out of the community.

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