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

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

Campaigning means talking to people in the street, it's important.

As the documentary 'True Son' illustrates, my campaign for city council started really small - with eight mostly political neophytes in my living room and with young people knocking on doors.

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.

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

We don't just show up at election time; we're there full time.

The first time when I was organizing, I went out and started knocking on doors to see if people were registered to vote. I was a door knocker. I didn't even have the confidence that I could register people, so I just was out there door knocking. That was my first experience.

Whenever we do voter registration, we ask, 'Why haven't you voted before?' The response is often, 'No one's asked us.' It's not about telling people what to do - it's about sharing what they can do.

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.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

It's a long time until the next election, but it starts now. And if you truly want to see things change in the direction that our country is headed, you have to stay involved. You cannot quit now.

The way to get people civically engaged, not just during the election but throughout the year, is to tap into Facebook and let them do it with their friends.

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

The Latino vote has to be earned just like any other.

We'll get out the [black] vote, but we need the white vote to win.

If they're not voting, we're not touching their heads and hearts.

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

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

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

It's about going to where your voters are.

The work that Rock The Vote does is incredible. So it's cool to collab with such an iconic organization.

My earliest memory campaigning was going to the dump to get petition signatures or handing out literature.

I've been reaching out to voters across the political spectrum from the very beginning.