G.T. Bynum Quotes

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.

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.

I just think, you know, when we talk about a politician, I think a person has to be themselves. Let the voters see the real you.

For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.

When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.

Telling people more about yourself and distinguishing yourself from your opponent - they're both essential parts of communicating with voters.

Microtargeting, as its name implies, is a way to identify small but crucial groups of voters who might be won over to a given side, and which messages would do the trick.

I made it clear that I can run a positive campaign and do it better.

One of my ideas is that we post every vote on Facebook and on social media so that voters have an opportunity to hold their elected official accountable.

Politicians used to be leaders. Now they follow voters, desperate for a tick in a box.

What any candidate should do in any race, frankly, is to show up. There's no special, secret sauce there. It's about having real conversations with real people, and when you do that you stay tethered to the things that matter. And that's what people want.

If I were to say anything to people I may say people should vote for those who are respectful to democracy, rule of law, who get on well with people.

When the people's representatives have to go on record and vote, it transforms our country. It is a full recognition that we are in a state of war.

It's hurting Democrats if you do really go profoundly negative in the primary. Most of them don't. They actually realize the most effective use of their money is to make sure they stand out in front of the voters and the voters understand their story.

We want to be absolutely clear to the people what we are about. No backroom deals whatsoever and we're not going to be held back by any other political parties.

If you're a Texas Supreme Court Justice hopscotching across 254 counties, trying to tattoo your name onto the noggins of millions of voters, you must find creative ways to raise visibility and build awareness. Twitter, Facebook, etc. are low-cost but high-yield ways to leverage the support of key influencers and opinion leaders.

Every time you work on a political campaign, half the people hate you. That's how it is.

Our projects are transparent and speedy. We act what we say.

What I learned was it does not matter how much support you have in the boardroom, from the directors, the executives: you have to get results, and you have to win.

Come 2012, I am not going to be voting for someone based on who I think would be the most fun to hang out and have a beer with. I am going to be voting for the person that I think will have the best chance of beating President Obama and gaining votes from independents.

The one thing about professional sport is it's all about results, and at the end of the day, if someone is employing you and you're not scoring runs or you're not taking wickets, they ain't going to carry on doing it, and there's no any other way of saying that; that's unfortunately the ruthless business of professional sport.

It's about grass-roots campaigning, meeting voters face-to-face, and above all, listening to what they have to say.

I think if Hillary Clinton had come on 'Fox & Friends,' she would have gotten so many more votes, especially if she had done it over and over and over.

I think, at the end of the day, if voters don't see the substance and the merit of the policies you're advocating, it won't matter what you do on social media.