Collin Peterson Quotes About Parties

Quotes about: Parties

• I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders.

  Collin Peterson

  Party, Leader, Independence

• 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 [the Democratic Party] has taken, it's very hard to see how you can do that.

  Collin Peterson

  Country, Taken, Party

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• I always run ahead of the ticket [compared to Democratic presidential candidates]. But this time there were a lot of people that just voted party line, a lot more than usual.

  Collin Peterson

  Running, Party, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• The only thing I can think to do is if the Democratic Party can do what the Republicans have done, which is go in there and take control of these legislatures and governors' areas.

  Collin Peterson

  Party, Thinking, Done

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• 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

  Party, America, Denial

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• [Rural people] have a different lifestyle, and they don't want to change it. They're happy with the way things are. It's causing the party political problems.

  Collin Peterson

  Party, People, Political

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• So [Republicans] packed all the Democrats into districts, very Democratic districts. What that's done is made our party urban, more liberal, and so those people are doing what their constituents want. But that's not what my constituents want.

  Collin Peterson

  Party, People, Done

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• I don't know how you change that. There's hardly anybody left like me in the Democratic Party in Congress. These districts have been so gerrymandered that, in most of them, a Democrat can't win. Somebody like me trying to start off today, he'd never get endorsed. Because I'm too conservative.

  Collin Peterson

  Party, Winning, Trying

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• 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 the lesbian-gay-transgender caucus and so forth, and that doesn't relate to people out in rural America.

  Collin Peterson

  Party, Gay, America

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• The [Democratic] party's become an urban party, and they don't get rural America. They don't get agriculture.

  Collin Peterson

  Party, Agriculture, America

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Some of the people in my caucus, some of the people in the state party in Minnesota have basically said, "We don't want to deal with these guys because they're too conservative," or "We don't agree with them on social issues."

  Collin Peterson

  Party, Issues, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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