Horace Greeley Quotes

Don't fall in love with the map. The map doesn't win elections.

I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?

I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills.

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.

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

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

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.

Moving forward, I will be committed to building a stronger team so that the GOP can compete and win statewide in 2018, including the possibility of being a candidate in that cycle.

Essentially, how do you go after [Donald] Trump to have a real shot of taking back control of Congress in 2018? Democrats will need to energize not only their base, but also pick up actual swing voters who could be turned off from President Trump.

So my concern is that - what the campaign has to do is to pull those folks [negative to Donald Trump] out and make sure that they actually get to the ballot.

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

Most pundits regard an election year session as an opportunity for the two parties to frame issues and garner political advantage in advance of the approaching election.

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

Political parties exist to get bums on seats.

The thing that Tea Parties have to understand, you can't govern if you don't get elected.

I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope.

Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

The people who run campaigns today have more iron control over the campaign than they did 20 or 30 years ago.

You don't win elections on Election Day. You win them by what you do all year round, by the day-to-day good will you generate in each precinct.

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

Divide the floaters [undecided voters] into blocks of five and put a trusted man with necessary funds in charge of these five and make him responsible that none get away and that all vote our ticket.

Modern politics is really a battle between lawyers and marketeers.

Practical politics is the politics of the coming election.

If you constantly cross your own centers of power, you lose the energy that wins elections.

We’re going to sell Jack like soap flakes. There are no accidents in politics.