Zephyr Teachout Quotes

There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion. One, is your convention speech; two, are the base; three, is the selection of your vice president.

There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

A political campaign is a movement. It's built around a single candidate. It will evaporate when he or she gets elected.

You cannot win an election without a fight.

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

I think I know a lot about campaigns.

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

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

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

I think I had a superb campaign team. And I know it's always expected that if you lose, people point to the campaign team and say, 'Gee, they didn't do their job well.' If you win, they're all brilliant. And the team, in my view, did a superb job.

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

I co-managed AOC's campaign alongside Vigie Ramos Rios and also was the one that managed the launch of her initial campaign in 2017.

We don't have a big party. We don't have election funding. We don't have television time.

I've always done party building and party fundraising.

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

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.

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.

I work really long hours and work a lot and have done press tours and junkets, but there is nothing like a presidential campaign that I have experienced before... I think at one point we visited three different cities in one state in 12 hours. It's exhausting.

A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.'

Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.

I am honored to be here as co-chair of President Obama's re-election campaign.

I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were targeting delegates and still trying to talk to people, which is what keeps me going as a human being.

Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.

I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.