Nina Turner Quotes

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

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

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.

Campaigning is uncomfortable when you start.

I campaign all the time.

I've always done party building and party fundraising.

Campaigning ain't tough.

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

When you walk into a field office, you have many opportunities. We'll hand you a call sheet. You can make calls. You can knock on doors, and they'll have these stacks there for you. They'll say: 'Harper, you've knocked on 50 doors. That's great. Here's how you compare to the rest of them.' But it's all very offline.

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.

Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote - this is what I call Organizing 101.

I value public service and I'm relatively good at organizing political causes.

Campaigns consume you.

Many people have the heart to give back, but a lot don't know how to. I try to be the bridge for those people - whether that means getting them involved in one of my campaigns or inspiring them by showing them a blueprint of how to get others engaged.

I would love to be a mentor to many people who want to go into the political arena, teach them the art of winning elections.

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.

My earliest memory campaigning was going to the dump to get petition signatures or handing out literature.

You can do a lot things in the ensuing four years waiting to vote. You can drum up support or opposition.

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.

Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field.

I loved campaigning.

There was no Congressional Club for my first campaign. There was no organized state group of Young Republicans, but there was a dedicated core of young people who volunteered to do anything my campaign needed.

I don't often get involved with campaigns at all.

I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.