Democrats fell in love with the idea that winning elections was a matter of talking to voters about the one issue we think impacts them, instead of our plan to move the country forward as a whole.
We are in an age of floating coalitions. Someone may be with you on one issue and against you on the next.
Reagan, Ford, Nixon, Clinton
I'm liberal about everything that is issue-based as far as ideology, but I'm also of the opinion of a very small government.
I think Donald Trump is at his best when he sticks to the issues.
I don't believe in trashing my opponents. I've never run a negative ad in my life. I believe in talking about issues, sometimes fighting for the media to talk about the issues, but that's what I do, and the people will decide.
My view is that politics should be on the basis of issues.
I have always supported measures and principles and not men.
Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
Before I ran for District Attorney, two Republicans invited my husband and me to lunch. And I knew a party-switch was exactly what they wanted. So, I told Chuck, we'll be polite, enjoy a free lunch and then say goodbye. But we talked about issues - they never used the words Republican, or Democrat, conservative or liberal. We talked about many issues, like welfare - is it a way of life, or a hand-up? Talked about the size of government - how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, "I'll be damned, we're Republicans."
I have a tendency to campaign positively and campaign on issues, not try to tear someone else down.
It's a bad strategy to have an identity-based strategy on the left. De-emphasizing identity all-around would help our politics because we would have to pay more attention to the issues. We may have to pay more attention to class if we didn't have these self-defeating identity agendas.
I have always been involved in issue-based politics, not party politics - I was never really originally drawn to party politics.
