Ted Lieu Quotes

One doesn't need money to run for Parliament, but it is undoubtedly expensive.

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

Citibank had nothing to do with getting reelected.

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.

I think that there was a lot of undisclosed money that came into South Dakota, driving a message to paint me as a Washington partisan, which I don't believe that I am, but it was a message that resonated, after pounding it away for a number of weeks.

In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.

There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in 30 seconds.

In a national campaign you are driven to negativism.

People spend money on negative campaigning because it works.

Microtargeting, as its name implies, is a way to identify small but crucial groups of voters who might be won over to a given side, and which messages would do the trick.

Democrats fell in love with the idea that winning elections was a matter of talking to voters about the one issue we think impacts them, instead of our plan to move the country forward as a whole.

We don't have a big party. We don't have election funding. We don't have television time.

Every dollar not spent is another dollar you have to reach the voters and convey a message.

I've been involved in doing advertising for various elections and I just couldn't see doing anti-Trump advertising in this election. My line has been, "How could you do anything worse that what he does himself?".

Anybody else who's gotten the president of the United States elected, tell me you are better than I am at it.

I've been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perry.

Here's the reality: when Hillary Clinton won the nomination, the DNC handed her insufficient and substandard tools for success.

I will continue to work with the Republican Party to try to encourage primaries.

Instead of candidates hiring people, like yours truly, to create campaign media that works on both conscious and subconscious levels to sway the voting public, what if all TV ads were, by law, only allowed to feature the candidate, with, say, the American flag as the backdrop, alone, speaking directly to the camera?

I've been involved in five presidential campaigns, once as national campaign manager for Walter Mondale.

Well, Trump campaign is not an actor. Trump campaign is the official campaign of the president.

To win a successful campaign against an opponent that has a lot more name recognition and a lot more money, I have to be edgy.

The good thing about having a Republican primary is that the voters will decide our nominee - unlike the Democrats.

The Koch brothers are spending more money against me than I've been able to raise.

The main influence on voters should be a series of robust debates among the candidates. It's a free country, so this is a tough problem to solve, but I'd love to see an election season with zero political ads, and all voters had to decide based on watching four national debates over the two months leading to election day.