Joe Garcia Quotes

You're really earning the support of New Hampshire voters, and you've got to do that one-on-one grassroots campaigning here, even if you have the most money.

In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.

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?

I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election.

I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to get them successfully re-elected.

Well, I would never admit to copying Karl Rove's play book, but there's no doubt that what the Bush people did in 2004 was impressive. They had neighbors talking to neighbors. They did a remarkable job increasing Republican turnout in states like Ohio and Florida.

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

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.

I realise that in an electoral campaign, you don't want to antagonise large groups which are highly motivated.

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

You can't show up at a church every 4 October and say, 'Vote for me,' and call that persuasion.

Election results and winning an election is not all about winning the next election or planning to win the next election.

TV ads are great for broadcasting, but voter turnout is about narrow-casting. And not all messengers are created equal.

Most people don't understand what the RNC ground game is.

We must not ignore the younger electorate in a fight for older swing voters who we can be confident will go to the polls.

The basic job of any campaign is to translate grassroots energy into turnout.

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.

So few people vote these days, and I think it's partly because they don't feel like the institution really means anything to them. If you want them to vote, give them opportunities to do something else other than vote, to help.

No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters.

Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.

In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take your issues to voters, and you put them out there, and people respond, or they don't.

Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.

When you have an election campaign, it has to be simple and something everybody can relate to.