Rachel Campos-Duffy Quotes

I'm a Republican; I'd say I'm a conservative Republican. My job as RNC chair is to elect Republicans all across this country.

I think when you look to the future what you'll find is that the Republican Party is building a bigger party base on stronger values.

You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

To be a party you have to have a national message.

How can you challenge an incumbent and not be divisive?

In the U.S. - and elsewhere - successful parties need a storyline that voters can relate to, an intelligible plot of some sort, especially now that so many older, formal ideologies have lost force. For proof of this, one has only to look at Margaret Thatcher's career and ideas.

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.

I've always viewed Mitt Romney as a very conservative person.

As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.

The Washington establishment think Republicans win elections by you don't stand for anything, you keep your head down, you don't rock the boat. You know what? Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls.

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.

The fact that the Conservatives are losing voters to UKIP while struggling to attract those who voted for other parties in 2010 suggests they have still not successfully shown what a Conservative government is for. This needs to be done on a broad front in a way that encompasses the economy and public services.

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?

One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.

Of course we are looking to win support across every section of society. We win support by speaking to voters on the issues they most care about.

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.

It's hard running as an independent. I wouldn't have won the Senate election if I hadn't been governor. I had credibility. The hard part is getting voters to the point where they think it's thinkable and not a waste of time.

Traditional values is the last trump card the Republican party possesses.

We are Republicans, and don't propose to have our party identify itself with the party whose antecedents are rum, Romanism, and rebellion.

The most successful political candidates will be those who can tap American anger without becoming a target.

You can't win an election with money alone.

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

In politics, you have to understand that there are some cases where you'll never be able to get votes.

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