Marc Veasey Quotes

Campaigning ain't tough.

A congressman serves a two year term. As soon as he gets elected, he has to start attending fund raisers.

I campaign all the time.

You never get to too big to phone bank, that's my opinion.

I spent some time in Vegas when I was doing some canvassing for Obama back in 2008.

When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.

I definitely learned about the inner workings of campaigns enough to know that I'm glad that I'm not in politics.

I loved campaigning for Obama.

I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.

I'm on the ground, I've been in swing states, I've been talking to the American people, I've been out there speaking on behalf of Obama's record, I've been in the trenches.

When she was running for election in 2006, I went to Missouri to campaign for Senator Claire McCaskill. She impressed the hell out of me and I fell in love with her mother Betty Anne who is a pistol!

Candidates run on the strength of their ideas, not the weight of their wallets.

[On political campaigns:] Get an elbow, give an elbow.

In the end, members of the [state] legislature have to have their own organizations, raise their own money and run their own campaigns if they are ... going to win.

A political campaign is a movement. It's built around a single candidate. It will evaporate when he or she gets elected.

There's nothing more exhilarating than being out on the campaign trail.

I ring 8,000 to 10,000 doorbells every time I run.

Campaigning is uncomfortable when you start.

Campaigns consume you.

In running for Congress, you have to raise over $2 million. You are going to end up shaking hands with people with whom you would rather not shake hands. 95 percent of all the candidates with the most money, win.

You build massive databases, you learn everything you can about the people in those databases, you figure out exactly how they can be useful to your campaign, and you ask them to donate money, door-knock, the virtual equivalent of being a sort of army of stamp lickers.

I traveled the country for a year and a half helping Hillary Clinton to try to become president.

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

The first thing I learned is that campaigns are about money. I had this romantic idea that campaigns were about law and debates and so forth, which is just not true. It's about money.

The last thing I expected in the world was to end up being involved in a presidential campaign.