Harper Reed Quotes

I ring 8,000 to 10,000 doorbells every time I run.

When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.

I loved campaigning.

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.

You never get to too big to phone bank, that's my opinion.

Campaigning ain't tough.

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

In 2008, I was a full-time volunteer for Barack Obama's first election. I'd take a carload of people and we'd go and canvass in a Native American community every evening.

The first time when I was organizing, I went out and started knocking on doors to see if people were registered to vote. I was a door knocker. I didn't even have the confidence that I could register people, so I just was out there door knocking. That was my first experience.

It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.

To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.

There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns are very labor intensive and volunteer dependent.

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.

I'm on the ground, I've been in swing states, I've been talking to the American people, I've been out there speaking on behalf of Obama's record, I've been in the trenches.

I went on the road with Hillary Rodham Clinton when she was out campaigning.

You don't win elections on Election Day. You win them by what you do all year round, by the day-to-day good will you generate in each precinct.

[On political campaigns:] Get an elbow, give an elbow.

There's nothing more exhilarating than being out on the campaign trail.

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

Campaigns consume you.

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

Bill de Blasio is a very good friend. I remember bringing up a whole caravan of cars to help volunteer on his Public Advocate race.

Campaigning means talking to people in the street, it's important.

As the documentary 'True Son' illustrates, my campaign for city council started really small - with eight mostly political neophytes in my living room and with young people knocking on doors.

I've always done party building and party fundraising.