Donna Edwards Quotes

I think it would be an extreme poverty indeed if there weren't more than one person willing to compete for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.

I certainly recognize that there will only be 10 or 12 challengers [for congressional seats] in the whole country who win, but my job is to be one of them.

We're running in a primary election. What do you do? You go out and seek support. When you're getting support, that's good. When you're not getting support, that's bad.

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

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.

In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

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

No. That's how I won the nomination.

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.

I'm very confident about my ability to earn votes in every neighborhood.

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

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

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary 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.

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

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

We will not lose this election for lack of money.

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 didn't really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election.