Harper Reed Quotes

The larger percentage of people you have registered, the larger percentage of people you will have voting.

Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.

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.

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.

When Democrats concede the idea that some voters are not our voters, we shouldn't be surprised when those voters agree.

Voting statistics for younger voters is pathetic.

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

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.

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?

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.

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.

Too many people are voting.

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.

We have over 13 million people who supported my candidacy. And I have no doubt that there are some of those people who will not vote for Hillary Clinton.

Voter turnout comes down to organizing, educating, activating.

I'm baffled by the people who say, 'I'm just not going to vote.'

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

Influencing voters is the crux of all poll campaigns.

It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.

It is essential that every eligible American voter has the ability and access to have their voice heard.

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