Jon Ossoff Quotes

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

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

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

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'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

A lot of our Democratic consultants have fallen into the self-defeating prescription that the candidate that runs the most negative ads wins. I have a new theory: Positive is the new negative.

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

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.

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

The Obama campaign was smarter, quicker on their feet than the Clinton camp.

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.

You can't win an election with money alone.

Campaigns are about adjustments.

It's about going to where your voters are.

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.

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.

I'm well aware of the dynamics of turnout and measuring enthusiasm and identifying and turning out voters. That's something I'm cognizant of in running a successful campaign.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

The [Hillary] Clinton campaign was still operating with a White House mentality.

You can't be the candidate and the campaign manager.

I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to get them successfully re-elected.

Most pundits regard an election year session as an opportunity for the two parties to frame issues and garner political advantage in advance of the approaching election.

I had this notion that I could convince people who were skeptical of national Democrats to vote for me because I could bring home the bacon, or because I could find some personal pitch to them.

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.