John Kasich Quotes

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.

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.

You can't win an election with money alone.

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

Influencing voters is the crux of all poll campaigns.

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

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.

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

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

You cannot win an election without a fight.

I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to get them successfully re-elected.

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

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.

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.

We'll get out the [black] vote, but we need the white vote to win.

You don't win elections on Election Day. You win them by what you do all year round, by the day-to-day good will you generate in each precinct.

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

When you run a campaign the idea is not to appeal to pundits but to appeal to people.

You can’t win a Presidential election in this country with just a base.

The world of messaging is the world of campaign consultants, of politicians, who are like trained seals who are given their message and then they perform. I’m not into that.

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

It's about going to where your voters are.

The weakness that our campaign and that I had is we weren't effective in taking my message primarily to minority voters.

Election results and winning an election is not all about winning the next election or planning to win the next election.