Ted Cruz Quotes

If you looked at Jeb Bush's campaign, it's more than just money. It's the nature of the candidate and the message and all that stuff.

I'm not sure a candidate ever feels his message is getting out.

In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.

When you run a campaign the idea is not to appeal to pundits but to appeal to people.

You can't win an election unless you have a message.

One doesn't need money to run for Parliament, but it is undoubtedly expensive.

It's hurting Democrats if you do really go profoundly negative in the primary. Most of them don't. They actually realize the most effective use of their money is to make sure they stand out in front of the voters and the voters understand their story.

I am proud of the campaign that we ran. Obviously, I wish we could have done a little bit better.

I won in a primary, so I understand primary fights.

The party currently is about fund-raising and occasionally blasting out ads.

I had this notion that I could convince people who were skeptical of national Democrats to vote for me because I could bring home the bacon, or because I could find some personal pitch to them.

We should remember the campaign advertising will be only a smaller portion of the President's total exposure.

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

Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

As the Republican nominee, it was Romney's job to find a way to speak to some of those groups of voters and offer practical solutions to their difficulties that both resonated with them and sounded plausible to them.

I'm running against a woman who's got David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel running her campaign.

Campaigns are not for educating. They're for linking up with the public mood.

If you can’t run against a political candidate, run against his campaign manager.

You can't win an election with money alone.

It's about going to where your voters are.

Instead of candidates hiring people, like yours truly, to create campaign media that works on both conscious and subconscious levels to sway the voting public, what if all TV ads were, by law, only allowed to feature the candidate, with, say, the American flag as the backdrop, alone, speaking directly to the camera?

The weakness that our campaign and that I had is we weren't effective in taking my message primarily to minority voters.

We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate.

We don't have a big party. We don't have election funding. We don't have television time.

When it comes to the general election, we are no longer running as an individual: we are running as the head of a ticket. And so the party itself will be doing some things to raise money, and Mr. Trump has indicated that he'd be willing to help the party.