Ralph Nader Quotes

We fail to continue to talk to, to court, to engage our voters. And then we look up and expect our nominees to look up and go from 0 to 100 in a matter of two months to try to secure a victory.

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 weakness that our campaign and that I had is we weren't effective in taking my message primarily to minority voters.

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

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together. Imagine being part of a crowd enraptured by the presence of Bill Clinton, and then having to listen to a speech by John Kerry!

It's almost a very rough rule of thumb: when Democrats are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around middle-class fears, Democrats win the election; when Republicans are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around cultural fears, Republicans win the election.

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.

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.

It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.

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.

If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

Scott Brown may be the last Republican to win a statewide fight in Massachusetts for a very long time. He caught the machine flat-footed in January 2010 when he out-hustled Martha Coakley and stole the Senate seat Ted Kennedy held all those years. And since then, the Democrats haven't lost a single statewide fight.

The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over.

All presidential elections will ultimately be a fight for the middle.

Practical politics is the politics of the coming election.

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

Michigan is a state we should have won in 2016, and we didn't, and I want to understand why.

The best thing the Democrats can do is to get Hillary Clinton elected.

You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.

It's about going to where your voters are.

We understand that we're going to be outspent. But we still think we can win decisively because there's some things money can't buy. Among these are votes.

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

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

In politics, name recognition matters a lot.

I think all nonpresidential elections are won or lost by motivating your own voters.