Blake Farenthold Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

I'm well aware of the dynamics of turnout and measuring enthusiasm and identifying and turning out voters. That's something I'm cognizant of in running a successful campaign.

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

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

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.

Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Listen, we're going to have to fight for every vote.

We must invest in and empower our state and local parties by creating effective field operations, an enhanced and advanced voter file, and a culture of collaboration between candidates at every level. Let's put the voters first.

The way I approach an election, I assume nothing. I run scared as a jackrabbit.

Campaigning means talking to people in the street, it's important.

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

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.