Campaign Strategy Quotes

The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.

People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him.

Well, I know I worked for Governor Rockefeller the last time he ran for his fourth term, and I obviously ran against Governor Cuomo the time he ran for his fourth term.

Don't run for mayor if you don't want to basically be working all the time.

I won in a primary, so I understand primary fights.

You would make the best governor but not the best candidate.

We have lost the elections; and it is natural that each of us will believe, and say, it has been because his peculiar views was not made sufficiently prominent.

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.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise.

The hardest thing about a presidential election is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

South Carolina put George H.W. Bush into the White House. But George W. Bush into the White House and sent Jeb Bush back to Miami.

Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she was a woman and running for vice-president. But Obama couldn't say, 'I'm black and I'm running for president.' It couldn't come out of his mouth. He couldn't say that because, if he did, he'd lose votes.

If you can't control these rumheads when you're their candidate, how the hell do you expect to control them if you become President?

Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.

My approach to running for office has always been driven by where can I do the most good and where are my skills best applied.

TV is set up to be just a shout fest: Is this good for Republicans or bad for Republicans; is this good for Cain or bad for Cain... tell me something that I need to know.

A [Presidential] candidate, confident of winning or sure of losing a bare majority of a state’s popular vote has no reason to expend resources there.

The tactics and strategy of every Presidential election campaign is most influenced by the previous Presidential election.

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.

Mudslinging – In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point.

I have a small Thai boy who dresses me and every year I let him pick what campaign I am going to work on. It saves me having to worry about it and, bless him, it makes him feel involved in the struggle for global liberation.

The only reason we won this election is that money does not vote. You do!

About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.

I've been a candidate for office at least eight times. A couple times for mayor, state representative, city council.