Emma Thompson Quotes

You can't show up at a church every 4 October and say, 'Vote for me,' and call that persuasion.

When you have an election campaign, it has to be simple and something everybody can relate to.

I went on the road with Hillary Rodham Clinton when she was out campaigning.

Honestly, I just don’t see it [running for the Presidency]. I tried it once…. You can go out with me to Iowa. You wouldn’t believe it. You’d never go to Iowa again.

The only bus tours to political events I ever went on with my father were when he was running for president. Why else would you be touring the nation in a bus?

If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.

You cannot win an election without a fight.

When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.

I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.

You're really earning the support of New Hampshire voters, and you've got to do that one-on-one grassroots campaigning here, even if you have the most money.

[On political campaigns:] Get an elbow, give an elbow.

The reason I lost the Governor’s race to Patterson is that I was out niggered. No one is ever going to out nigger me again.

To win [elections] in this country these days you've got to campaign down to a 13-year-old's level of mental development.

I love covering politics at that early stage where you can walk up to Mike Huckabee, who gets out of his car by himself. A car that he drove, who just walks up and talks to you because that's the only way he can get his message out.

Microtargeting, as its name implies, is a way to identify small but crucial groups of voters who might be won over to a given side, and which messages would do the trick.

Election results and winning an election is not all about winning the next election or planning to win the next election.

I spent almost two years trying to get my father elected president.

Many candidates use a political autobiography to sell their candidacy.

Most people don't understand what the RNC ground game is.

Influencing voters is the crux of all poll campaigns.

We're running in a primary election. What do you do? You go out and seek support. When you're getting support, that's good. When you're not getting support, that's bad.

During elections, every party has a different strategy and issues.

Television, with its triple advantages of sight, sound and motion, can make or break a candidate, a party or a platform. In my opinion television must not be considered as supplementary media but as the heart of your program to “win friends and influence people.

I gave Romney some advice. I said “Mitt, just relax and be one of your selves.”

You can't win an election with money alone.