Gus Van Sant Quotes

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.

You're really earning the support of New Hampshire voters, and you've got to do that one-on-one grassroots campaigning here, even if you have the most money.

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

If they're not voting, we're not touching their heads and hearts.

Low turnout in off-year races is always a challenge for Democrats. Many of our voters require information and must be contacted way ahead of Election Day - and reminded of what's at stake.

My fear is turnout. I think a lot of people might think: 'Well, in the end, it's the rational thing to stay, but I'll let other people make that choice for me.' Don't. This is very close, no doubt about it.

Young people - motivating them in any election is hard to do.

TV ads are great for broadcasting, but voter turnout is about narrow-casting. And not all messengers are created equal.

Voting statistics for younger voters is pathetic.

The key here is that we're not going to beat them on commercials: They're always going to have more money than us. So what we have to try to do throughout is just ask people to make sure they vote.

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

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

I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.

Young people are the key to this election.

Whether you voted for me or not, going through the Democratic process had made me a better candidate. I am a smarter, better candidate.

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

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

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

One of the things about the electoral system in the United States, in general, is that it is very susceptible to class. In poorer neighborhoods you are going to have a lower turnout. This country is very much a middle-class country. When you're talking about poor or working-class people, there are not many vehicles for mobilizing them.

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.

It's too bad that such crowds can't be turned out in the United States.

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

Getting people to vote is the only way to break this tragic coalition in Congress.

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

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