Elise Stefanik Quotes

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.

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.

It's about going to where your voters are.

I know what it takes to win. I know a general election is going to come down to not only Republican voters but my ability to connect with independent and women voters.

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.

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

The larger percentage of people you have registered, the larger percentage of people you will have voting.

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

Young people - motivating them in any election is hard to do.

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

I'm well aware of the dynamics of turnout and measuring enthusiasm and identifying and turning out voters. That's something I'm cognizant of in running a successful campaign.

We fail to continue to talk to, to court, to engage our voters. And then we look up and expect our nominees to look up and go from 0 to 100 in a matter of two months to try to secure a victory.

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

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.

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.

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?

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

As the Republican nominee, it was Romney's job to find a way to speak to some of those groups of voters and offer practical solutions to their difficulties that both resonated with them and sounded plausible to them.

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

How can you challenge an incumbent and not be divisive?

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

You can't win an election unless you have a message.

Low turnout in off-year races is always a challenge for Democrats. Many of our voters require information and must be contacted way ahead of Election Day - and reminded of what's at stake.