Smriti Irani 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.

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

It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.

Most politicians keep close tabs on what's happening back home and work assiduously to keep lines of communications open with the political players in their states or districts.

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.

I've been reaching out to voters across the political spectrum from the very beginning.

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.

For almost 20 years, I've worked on various campaigns. I started out as a phone volunteer. I'd go into campaign offices, ask for lists of Native American voters, and just start calling people because I felt that I just wanted to help more Native folks get to the polls.

You cannot win an election without a fight.

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.

No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.

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.

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

Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.

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.

I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way.

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 Latino vote has to be earned just like any other.

A political campaign should be an education for both the voters and the candidates.

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

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

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