Lynn Martin Quotes

I loved campaigning.

I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.

Campaigning ain't tough.

It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.

People can expect to see a lot of me - I'm not too proud to stand on corners and hold my campaign signs.

I went on the road with Hillary Rodham Clinton when she was out campaigning.

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

I campaign all the time.

When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.

I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.

I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

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.

Ann Romney has been front-and-center. She's held a lot of town halls, a lot of campaign rallies, on her own, separate from her husband. And she is dynamite out on the campaign trail.

Some political spouses are much more comfortable on the campaign trail than others, and they take to it a lot more naturally.

I think I know a lot about campaigns.

I'm on the ground, I've been in swing states, I've been talking to the American people, I've been out there speaking on behalf of Obama's record, I've been in the trenches.

Alexandria has been chosen as the first stop for one of the greatest campaigners in America, and I am very proud to announce that I am her husband.

I ring 8,000 to 10,000 doorbells every time I run.

I traveled the country for a year and a half helping Hillary Clinton to try to become president.

I've always done party building and party fundraising.

Every time you work on a political campaign, half the people hate you. That's how it is.

Working on a campaign and running for president should be a visceral, emotional, passionate, and intense experience.

When you walk into a field office, you have many opportunities. We'll hand you a call sheet. You can make calls. You can knock on doors, and they'll have these stacks there for you. They'll say: 'Harper, you've knocked on 50 doors. That's great. Here's how you compare to the rest of them.' But it's all very offline.

It can be really lonely running for office, especially if you've never done it before and especially when all the normal channels of power are basically closed to you.