Christine Pelosi Quotes

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.

We need to go everywhere. There is not one county in this state, I don't care how far west you go, that doesn't have Democrats. We have to be proud of who we are.

You're really earning the support of New Hampshire voters, and you've got to do that one-on-one grassroots campaigning here, even if you have the most money.

In the end, members of the [state] legislature have to have their own organizations, raise their own money and run their own campaigns if they are ... going to win.

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.

Most people don't understand what the RNC ground game is.

I am a full-time political worker.

In terms of winning the election, it's all about turnout and how we connect with the voter as to what it means in their lives to turn out to vote, to win the House, the Senate, statehouses, state governorships and the rest.

If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.

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.

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

The most successful political candidates will be those who can tap American anger without becoming a target.

My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.

Democrats in 2020 can't just drive by red counties. You have to stop, get out of your car, ask for people's votes, and engage with them on issues that relate to their lives.

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

I love covering politics at that early stage where you can walk up to Mike Huckabee, who gets out of his car by himself. A car that he drove, who just walks up and talks to you because that's the only way he can get his message out.

The Leave side can only win if we have an effective ground campaign comprising of activists from across the political spectrum working together.

Let me say this as your incoming chair of the Democratic national committee: I promise you, my friends, I commit to all Americans, that we will have a party that you can be proud of. We will elect Democrats up and down the ballot.

Obama did organize a great large number of people and many enthusiastic people, what's called in the press 'Obama's Army.' But the army is supposed to take instructions, not to implement, to introduce, develop programs and call on its own candidate to implement them. That's critical.

Campaigns are about adjustments.

Anybody else who's gotten the president of the United States elected, tell me you are better than I am at it.

I've been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perry.

The most powerful thing in politics is voter-to-voter contact. People take in ideas and formulate opinions by contact with other people they perceive to be trustworthy - other voters, people from their communities.

Here's the reality: when Hillary Clinton won the nomination, the DNC handed her insufficient and substandard tools for success.

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