Michael Bloomberg Quotes

We must invest in and empower our state and local parties by creating effective field operations, an enhanced and advanced voter file, and a culture of collaboration between candidates at every level. Let's put the voters first.

My family and I are devoted to working with our team to rebuild our party in areas where we are weak.

The Latino vote has to be earned just like any other.

You don't win elections on Election Day. You win them by what you do all year round, by the day-to-day good will you generate in each precinct.

You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.

Look, we are building out a large coalition program from Latinos for Trump, Black Voices for Trump, the faith-based, all kinds of different coalitions. That's an important thing for us to do. We need to turn out those voters.

You cannot win an election without a fight.

About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.

Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.

To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.

I have never run campaigns based on an ethnic coalition.

To succeed in big-city politics requires a powerful, motivating vision of a better world, a plan to get there, a willingness to meet constituents on their terms, and a tough political skin.

There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns are very labor intensive and volunteer dependent.

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

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

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

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.

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

I went to the Women's Campaign School at Yale; I went to Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Training, women's campaign fund training. I got to know the district really well by talking to the county chair, getting to know politics, working on some local races.

Obama did organize a great large number of people and many enthusiastic people, what's called in the press 'Obama's Army.' But the army is supposed to take instructions, not to implement, to introduce, develop programs and call on its own candidate to implement them. That's critical.

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.

The last thing I expected in the world was to end up being involved in a presidential campaign.

The point of a political party is to attract a broad base of members and activists and lots of them.

I meet party workers. This is a must because it helps me understand the problems and issues of voters at the district level.