Constance Zimmer Quotes

Campaigns are about adjustments.

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

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.

In Washington, politicians worry about their 'base.' About polls. About ideology. About raising money. About re-election. They measure their future in two- or six-year increments.

I think I know a lot about campaigns.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

The people who run campaigns today have more iron control over the campaign than they did 20 or 30 years ago.

Smilin' for the Presidency

Review" is a great word in politics. It will last you almost an entire election cycle if you play it right.

In the end, members of the [state] legislature have to have their own organizations, raise their own money and run their own campaigns if they are ... going to win.

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.

You should be strenuous in seeing as many people as possible every day of every possible class and order, for from the mere numbers of these you can make a guess of the amount of support you will get on the balloting

In a close election no one is going to pass up an opportunity to mix politics with a little sex.

The tactics and strategy of every Presidential election campaign is most influenced by the previous Presidential election.

Until the 1980s, candidates spent a fraction of their time talking to donors; just a few weeks a year, a little more right before an election. True, they'd fund raise from the wealthy interests, as they do now, but it was a minuscule part of their job: policy and constituent services were the heart of the work.

I've been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perry.

Today, campaigning isn't an 'interruption' but a permanent condition. Indeed, if you are a successful campaigner, it's expected you'll be a successful president.

Don't fall in love with the map. The map doesn't win elections.

I would love to be a mentor to many people who want to go into the political arena, teach them the art of winning elections.

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

The first thing I learned is that campaigns are about money. I had this romantic idea that campaigns were about law and debates and so forth, which is just not true. It's about money.

I've always done party building and party fundraising.

I am a full-time political worker.

It's about grass-roots campaigning, meeting voters face-to-face, and above all, listening to what they have to say.