Jesse Jackson Quotes

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.

I think I know a lot about campaigns.

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

Campaigns are about adjustments.

Trump was doing very well on a model that made sense, but now, as the campaign has gotten to the end stages, a more traditional campaign has to take place.

I definitely learned about the inner workings of campaigns enough to know that I'm glad that I'm not in politics.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

To win a successful campaign against an opponent that has a lot more name recognition and a lot more money, I have to be edgy.

Moving forward, I will be committed to building a stronger team so that the GOP can compete and win statewide in 2018, including the possibility of being a candidate in that cycle.

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.

It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.

I've never sought elected office since I was a senior class president in high school.

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

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

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level and have run campaigns or have been deeply involved in grass roots political campaigns and who have actual hands-on experience.

Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

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

I want to run this party like a campaign—not a bureaucracy.