Chris Christie Quotes

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.

To campaign in the South is a unique cultural experience. You go into the little church facilities and meet people, or you go to a spaghetti supper, and it's about talking and hugging and shaking hands.

Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field.

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

Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.

Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.

I have never run campaigns based on an ethnic coalition.

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?

To succeed in big-city politics requires a powerful, motivating vision of a better world, a plan to get there, a willingness to meet constituents on their terms, and a tough political skin.

I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.

I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way.

I think I know a lot about campaigns.

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.

Don't get mad. Don't get even. Get elected.

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

When you run a campaign the idea is not to appeal to pundits but to appeal to people.

The reason I lost the Governor’s race to Patterson is that I was out niggered. No one is ever going to out nigger me again.

Trace out also individuals in every region, inform yourself about them, seek them out, secure that in their own districts they shall canvas for you, and be, as it were, candidates in your interest.

I campaign all the time.

You can't win an election unless you have a message.

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

I went to the Women's Campaign School at Yale; I went to Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Training, women's campaign fund training. I got to know the district really well by talking to the county chair, getting to know politics, working on some local races.

Campaigns are about adjustments.

Anybody else who's gotten the president of the United States elected, tell me you are better than I am at it.