Katie Porter Quotes

In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take your issues to voters, and you put them out there, and people respond, or they don't.

The people who show up at the early primaries are very passionate and not much interested in compromise.

I don’t think as a general matter we should be encouraging people who don’t know anything about what they’re voting for to vote. That’s what Democrats do. Republicans shouldn’t follow suit on that.

I will not be voting for Donald Trump for president. This is not a decision I make lightly, for I am a lifelong Republican. But Donald Trump does not reflect historical Republican values nor the inclusive approach to governing that is critical to healing the divisions in our country.

When I first ran for governor, the political class and party leaders opposed me with great vigor, and some even said if I won the primary they would never vote for me. But the voters had other ideas, and they are the only ones who count.

You combine the Tea Party along with our support with the Republican base and grassroots, and it makes for a winning combination.

[Coming back for Democrats] is simply a matter of energy and resources.

You can't get votes that way. So [the Republicans] have been compelled to mobilize a base of voters and gone to elements of the country that have always been there but were kind of marginal to the political system, for example, religious extremists.

The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.

The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.

Young Republicans are a very, very important constituency. Along with little old ladies, they provide the foot soldiers for the Republican Party.

Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.

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?

Nobody should be surprised that Republicans vote for Republican policy. Just like Democrats vote for Democrat policy.

The GOP cannot expect to win the presidency in the future by simply relying on running up big numbers with white voters.

If Strom Thurmond could get 30% of the black vote, any Republican can.

I propose to be mayor for the Republicans, Progressives, Socialists, and independent voters as well as the Democrats.

We're not going to get the Negro vote as a bloc in 1964 or 1968, so we ought to go hunting where the ducks are.

Middle class voters are the mega-prize in American politics.

The Democratic support against Barker [72 to 25] was so strong that they didn't even need us Republicans.

The two old parties … fight only for office. Observe how utterly both parties in this respect lack program and new leadership.

How can you challenge an incumbent and not be divisive?

Parties perform, to some degree, at least three functions in a democratic government. They recruit candidates, mobilize voters, and assemble power within the formal government.

Democratic candidates who run from President Obama in red states where he is unpopular are making a big mistake. Their holding Obama at arm's length deprives voters of a clear choice at the ballot box.

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