Richard A. Viguerie Quotes

I am a full-time political worker.

I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner.

Don't hang out with the conservatives. They're boring. Hang out with the liberals. They're more interesting.

I lost my first run for office, but I developed a great love for grassroots politics.

Since the rise of television in the 1950s, the media have become the central forum for American politicking, and increasingly today that role is being played by the blogosphere. With the blogger and the viewer replacing the pamphleteer and the parader, politicians focus on marketing themselves and their causes to passive consumers rather than mobilizing passionate soldiers. The new language of politics sounds like this: Spin doctors stage photo ops as pollsters survey voter preferences, spawning celebrity candidates.

When you don't have a voice like Michele Bachmann's, who personifies all of the good things that the Tea Party has come to mean to America, then it's more difficult to have any sort of unified or representative message with the same profile in the media.

We on the Left are very good at criticizing people, but we need to build the base to pull people to the Left.

I spent some time in Vegas when I was doing some canvassing for Obama back in 2008.

We must challenge to fight at every level, including Congress and to make that challenge political and to organize as a political party is how we get traction.

I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.

I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

I respect Rush Limbaugh; he is a national conservative leader, and in no way do I want to diminish his voice.

Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.

I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.

I do think the Tea Party position will prevail, and I am often asked: 'What has the Tea Party done and is it even still alive?' People think because there have been no demonstrations with the 'Don't Tread on Me' flag it's gone, but it hasn't.

One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.

I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.

I haven't been very active in politics.

I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

Now that I'm a political pundit, I have the ability to influence people.

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level and have run campaigns or have been deeply involved in grass roots political campaigns and who have actual hands-on experience.

This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.

I got into politics when I was eight years old.