Stephanie Tubbs Jones Quotes

You can do a lot things in the ensuing four years waiting to vote. You can drum up support or opposition.

I've heard from lots of organizers in the [Bernie] Sanders campaign, both paid and unpaid. I have heard from lots of them. We have not heard from the Sanders campaign. I do not expect to hear from the Sanders campaign. But you know, it's not over until it's over. So we remain open to that possibility. As Bernie said himself, it's not about a man, it's a movement.

I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.

I want to do my part in fighting for America's future. That's why I have decided to run for the United States Senate.

I ring 8,000 to 10,000 doorbells every time I run.

Before running for the Washington State Senate in 2014, I had spent 20 years as an activist. I had always believed that we needed to push for change on the outside, through community organizing and advocacy.

Campaigning ain't tough.

We now have over a hundred thousand people who are signed up on our campaign and our petition to open up the debate, and we're encouraging people to come and to join us and to insist that we need to be included.

There was no Congressional Club for my first campaign. There was no organized state group of Young Republicans, but there was a dedicated core of young people who volunteered to do anything my campaign needed.

I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.

I ran for Congress, just once.

Smilin' for the Presidency

A political campaign is a movement. It's built around a single candidate. It will evaporate when he or she gets elected.

In politics, demonstration not description is the name of the game.

There's nothing more exhilarating than being out on the campaign trail.

Campaigning is uncomfortable when you start.

As to politics, I am doing what I can for the cause.

It will help your campaign tremendously to have the energy of young people on your side to canvas voters, gain supporters, spread news, and make you look good.

You never get to too big to phone bank, that's my opinion.

I traveled the country for a year and a half helping Hillary Clinton to try to become president.

I have my chops in organizing, and I know how to create political space through movement building.

I grew up around politics. I organized my first campaign when I was 14, a walk-out in my high school to protest the year-round school schedule.

I'm asking people to vote for me because I'm an activist leader and a problem solver.

My earliest memory campaigning was going to the dump to get petition signatures or handing out literature.

I've always done party building and party fundraising.