Brad Carson Quotes

The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

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.

It does no good to be a conservative if you can't sell a conservative message in a general election.

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

Democrats fell in love with the idea that winning elections was a matter of talking to voters about the one issue we think impacts them, instead of our plan to move the country forward as a whole.

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

The Democratic chairman doesn't need to be a household name. Most people didn't know who Ron Brown was when he was chairman of the Democratic Party, but he put the party in a position where Bill Clinton could come in and he had a solid base to run from.

Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.

There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion. One, is your convention speech; two, are the base; three, is the selection of your vice president.

If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

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

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.

We'll get out the [black] vote, but we need the white vote to win.

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

You can't win an election with money alone.

The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.

It's about going to where your voters are.

You don't win elections by telling people what you're against. We're very good at listing things we don't much like about what the Tories are doing. But you win elections by telling them what you're for, what you're going to change, what's going to be better.

We need candidates who are able to reach out to young voters, women voters.

I made it clear that I can run a positive campaign and do it better.

The basic job of any campaign is to translate grassroots energy into turnout.

I got 220,000 votes from people who also voted for Donald Trump. I did not do that by pretending to be a conservative Democrat.

As soon as I came in as leader, we had seven weeks to an election, so we had to be entirely focused on the job we had in front of us.

When you are in election mode, you are focused only on winning.

In terms of winning the election, it's all about turnout and how we connect with the voter as to what it means in their lives to turn out to vote, to win the House, the Senate, statehouses, state governorships and the rest.