Tony Abbott Quotes

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

We must invest in and empower our state and local parties by creating effective field operations, an enhanced and advanced voter file, and a culture of collaboration between candidates at every level. Let's put the voters first.

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

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.

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

Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.

When you have an election campaign, it has to be simple and something everybody can relate to.

Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and the California legislature around the country.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

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

You can't win an election with money alone.

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

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

It's about going to where your voters are.

If the campaign is about issues, we will win.

I'm well aware of the dynamics of turnout and measuring enthusiasm and identifying and turning out voters. That's something I'm cognizant of in running a successful campaign.

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.

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.

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

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.

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.

There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns are very labor intensive and volunteer dependent.

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.

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.

I think I know a lot about campaigns.