Lisa Murkowski Quotes

The simplest answer is the truth: I am a campaign professional.

I am honored to be here as co-chair of President Obama's re-election campaign.

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

I've been involved in five presidential campaigns, once as national campaign manager for Walter Mondale.

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.

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

You can't win an election with money alone.

I've had to step up when I was Al Gore's campaign manager. I had to make significant changes as we moved from Washington, D.C. to Tennessee.

We basically ran the Henry Bellmon campaign.

It's about going to where your voters are.

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

Trump was doing very well on a model that made sense, but now, as the campaign has gotten to the end stages, a more traditional campaign has to take place.

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.

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.

I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.

There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion. One, is your convention speech; two, are the base; three, is the selection of your vice president.

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.

Listen, we're going to have to fight for every vote.

The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for.

Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I'm still a supporter.

I am considering running for Senate, as well as other opportunities.

Political campaigns are only a slightly more polite form of ground battle.

In the end, members of the [state] legislature have to have their own organizations, raise their own money and run their own campaigns if they are ... going to win.