Jair Bolsonaro Quotes

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.

You can't win an election with money alone.

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

You build massive databases, you learn everything you can about the people in those databases, you figure out exactly how they can be useful to your campaign, and you ask them to donate money, door-knock, the virtual equivalent of being a sort of army of stamp lickers.

Nobody ever wins the first time they run for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win their first bid for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win without taking lobbyists' money. No one's ever supposed to defeat an incumbent. No one's ever supposed to run a grassroots campaign without running any ads on television. We did all of those things.

Well, Trump campaign is not an actor. Trump campaign is the official campaign of the president.

One doesn't need money to run for Parliament, but it is undoubtedly expensive.

This election isn't about Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. It's about you. The other guys write $10 million checks and make $10,000 bets. But we've bet this campaign on you.

The party currently is about fund-raising and occasionally blasting out ads.

I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.

I work really long hours and work a lot and have done press tours and junkets, but there is nothing like a presidential campaign that I have experienced before... I think at one point we visited three different cities in one state in 12 hours. It's exhausting.

A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.'

I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC.

It's hard running for office when people can't say your name.

Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.

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.

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

We should remember the campaign advertising will be only a smaller portion of the President's total exposure.

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.

The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

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.

I actually had a dream that one of my friends became president, and I was trying to help out with the campaign. It was pretty good.

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

In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.

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