Robert Teeter Quotes

The hardest thing about a presidential election is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

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.

I am a bit biased. I co-chair the campaign effort of George W. Bush.

When you have an election campaign, it has to be simple and something everybody can relate to.

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.

The vast majority of Americans agree with us. We're doing everything that we can. We're advertising, right now we're on television with an advertisement running in the Washington area. We've got newspaper ads.

Review" is a great word in politics. It will last you almost an entire election cycle if you play it right.

Political advertising works, particularly when it’s unrebutted.

I spent almost two years trying to get my father elected president.

You certainly don't want to market the president as if he or she were a box of breakfast cereal.

According to the recent polls, Bush has a slight lead over John Kerry. So today, Bush hung a banner over the White House saying, 'Mission Accomplished.'

Remember Donald Trump had about $4 billion worth of free media, and Hillary Clinton has had about $2 billion, and we've had zero. I think it remarkable that we are standing where we are.

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

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.'

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

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

You spend a couple million dollars running for Congress, people get tired of seeing your face.

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

Smilin' for the Presidency

Campaigns are not for educating. They're for linking up with the public mood.

A 30 second negative ad can matter more to a candidate's career than a lifetime voting record.

When you run a campaign the idea is not to appeal to pundits but to appeal to people.

It is increasingly difficult to run a campaign of substance in an atmosphere which increasingly focuses on personality.

In the 1972 election campaign the citizen would be the victim of the most sophisticated sales blizzard ever inflicted on any voting population anywhere.

Television, with its triple advantages of sight, sound and motion, can make or break a candidate, a party or a platform. In my opinion television must not be considered as supplementary media but as the heart of your program to “win friends and influence people.