Quintus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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.

It's about going to where your voters are.

We're running in a primary election. What do you do? You go out and seek support. When you're getting support, that's good. When you're not getting support, that's bad.

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.

Klandidate

Trace out also individuals in every region, inform yourself about them, seek them out, secure that in their own districts they shall canvas for you, and be, as it were, candidates in your interest.

I ran for chairman of the Democratic Party to win elections.

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

The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.

You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.

Don't fall in love with the map. The map doesn't win elections.

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

We need candidates who are able to reach out to young voters, women voters.

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

I have one focus and that focus is getting Donald Trump reelected.

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.

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.

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.

There is constantly a war going on between the two parties for the populist vote. The populist vote is always the swing vote.

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

Practical politics is the politics of the coming election.

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

The reason I lost the Governor’s race to Patterson is that I was out niggered. No one is ever going to out nigger me again.

How can you challenge an incumbent and not be divisive?

Today, campaigning isn't an 'interruption' but a permanent condition. Indeed, if you are a successful campaigner, it's expected you'll be a successful president.