Andrew Lansley Quotes

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

You cannot win an election without a fight.

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

The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over.

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.

The weakness that our campaign and that I had is we weren't effective in taking my message primarily to minority voters.

I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to get them successfully re-elected.

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

In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take your issues to voters, and you put them out there, and people respond, or they don't.

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

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.

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.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

I will do anything to get re-elected.

It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government.

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

Democrats in 2020 can't just drive by red counties. You have to stop, get out of your car, ask for people's votes, and engage with them on issues that relate to their lives.

Rare is the election campaign that truly hinges on a single issue.

You can't show up at a church every 4 October and say, 'Vote for me,' and call that persuasion.

If the campaign is about issues, we will win.

Influencing voters is the crux of all poll campaigns.

I've been reaching out to voters across the political spectrum from the very beginning.

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.

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