Raj Thackeray Quotes

The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.

It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.

The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.

What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.

To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

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.

The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise.

Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

Outcome of these elections is not in doubt due to simple fact that there is only one candidate for each position…. You may be wondering why party propaganda machine attaches such importance to electoral campaign and surrounds it with such unparalleled pomp and circumstance.

We don't win or lose elections because of [party] rules.

You should be strenuous in seeing as many people as possible every day of every possible class and order, for from the mere numbers of these you can make a guess of the amount of support you will get on the balloting

The main question that is decided by an election in our country is, which political party shall have the privilege of dispensing the offices of Government?

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

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

In 21st-century America, as in Georgian Britain, elections are raucous, flamboyant, flag-waving, expensive, and sometimes ramshackle things.

You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.

It's about going to where your voters are.

I don't believe in the polls. I try to concentrate on the day of elections.

During election time, I work over 21 hours. My day starts around 6 A.M., and I address meetings through the day. Between 10 P.M. and 2 A.M., I meet local leaders, where we discuss local issues and local problems.

A lot of times, elections are lost, and the hope of the public is lost because they don't turn out.

Influencing voters is the crux of all poll campaigns.

One of the areas that many of us, including the Women's March organizers, are focusing on is starting mass voter registration and voter engagement.

Voting statistics for younger voters is pathetic.