Mike Lindell Quotes

I am a full-time political worker.

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

I lost my first run for office, but I developed a great love for grassroots politics.

I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner.

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 am a bit biased. I co-chair the campaign effort of George W. Bush.

I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.

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

I never had a political thought in my life until they asked me to join the Richard Nixon Presidential Campaign.

I went to the Women's Campaign School at Yale; I went to Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Training, women's campaign fund training. I got to know the district really well by talking to the county chair, getting to know politics, working on some local races.

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.

I traveled the country for a year and a half helping Hillary Clinton to try to become president.

You can't win a congressional seat unless you have money. Even if you do, it's tick-tock, tick-tock until someone with more money beats you.

I've always done party building and party fundraising.

The point of a political party is to attract a broad base of members and activists and lots of them.

I am joining politics for sure.

I was a chairwoman of my state Democratic party.

I'll be active in politics through PACs at a later date.

I'm not into politics. I have received offers to enter politics, but I have not been tempted so far. I can't say about the future.

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.

I wanted to be a senator from Illinois. I was obsessed with politics. My dad was friends with a lot of local politicians, so I would hang out with them on Election Day and hand out buttons. Somehow, even though they were opposite, I loved Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. I thought they were the coolest guys!

I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.

I don't have to be in politics.

It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.

My mother, she worked in the mayor's office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time.