Donna Brazile Quotes

I think I had a superb campaign team. And I know it's always expected that if you lose, people point to the campaign team and say, 'Gee, they didn't do their job well.' If you win, they're all brilliant. And the team, in my view, did a superb job.

We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate.

The simplest answer is the truth: I am a campaign professional.

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion. One, is your convention speech; two, are the base; three, is the selection of your vice president.

There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

If you can’t run against a political candidate, run against his campaign manager.

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

I would love to be a mentor to many people who want to go into the political arena, teach them the art of winning elections.

Donald Trump is running this campaign. And I'm working directly for Donald Trump.

Campaigns are crazy things. They're half startup, half enterprise.

As soon as I came in as leader, we had seven weeks to an election, so we had to be entirely focused on the job we had in front of us.

I am honored to be here as co-chair of President Obama's re-election campaign.

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.

I believe I can lead this party from the front as a campaigning organization.

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.

When you're putting together a campaign for president, like I've been, that entails a lot of time. It's not like I've been at the beach sipping a pina colada.

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.

I ran for chairman of the Democratic Party to win elections.

We basically ran the Henry Bellmon campaign.

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.

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

I co-managed AOC's campaign alongside Vigie Ramos Rios and also was the one that managed the launch of her initial campaign in 2017.

When it comes to the general election, we are no longer running as an individual: we are running as the head of a ticket. And so the party itself will be doing some things to raise money, and Mr. Trump has indicated that he'd be willing to help the party.