N. Chandrababu Naidu Quotes

I have never seen a poll elect anyone

Voters will judge you on what sort of crowd you draw [when making public appearances] both in quality and numbers.

Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent.

People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.

The single biggest weakness that politicians have as a group is that they want people to like them.

You never know whether you're elected because people know who you are or people don't know who you're are.

Mr. Kennedy's victory has proved that there was not as much religious prejudice as many had feared.

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order.

By choice, polls validate the media’s filtered view of the world.

I didn’t think that I would ever get elected. After all, you don’t vote for somebody who is attacking Santa Claus.

The losing side is comforted, I think, by this idea of magical gurus [masterminding the opponent’s campaign], because it’s less disconcerting than the fact that people just didn’t like them very much.

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things. For example, a politician really can't be elected if he's hated by half the people. A talk show host, however, can be an overwhelming national phenomenon while being hated by half the people.

Candidates matter. Campaigns matter. 'He can win' or 'She can't win' is up there with, 'I'm going to lose 10 pounds, win the lottery, and live forever.' Saying it does not make it so.

I was always a little skeptical of how voters would react to my name.

We know that if whites and nonwhites vote in the same percentages as they did in 2000, Bush will be re-defeated by 3 million votes.

Politics should be done by earning love and affection and by winning the hearts.

I would say the reason that Tim Bishop electorally was able to get more votes, if you were just going to analyze registration and numbers, is that he had a quarter of the Republican vote, every election. No one is getting a quarter of the Republican vote from me.

I'm very confident about my ability to earn votes in every neighborhood.

I would say a successful campaign reflects the desire of the people who are there to support a candidate.

Political operatives don't tend to be existentialists. They do know, however, that if a supporter doesn't vote, then his or her opinion does not make a sound - or a difference.

The polls tell us something, but they don't tell us everything. They don't tell us how people are going to show up on Election Day.

Those who voted Conservative in 2015 were not wrong.

Voters have demonstrated time and again that candidates who buck the teachers' union are rewarded.

In my primary, I only won by 23 votes in that one, so every vote really does count, and I want to make sure I get as many as I possibly can.