Election Quotes

“Everybody knows that you've got to sell a product to a certain base. This is a presidential election, and you're selling a product.”

“The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal is the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.”

“My change in party will enable me to be re-elected.”

“My view is that the primary is a bad way to pick a candidate.”

“A hung parliament is not a constitutional crisis.”

“We should have a system of Republican nominations that allows voters to act as a jury.”

“A wave is a wave. It can be a Republican wave or a Democratic wave. But it's about the fundamentals.”

“The statutes are very precise, very specific, as to what constitutes a vote.”

“When you talk about democracy, if you mean the ability of the people to choose their own government, then we have that in our country.”

“We had a very simple focus, which was to get to 270 electoral votes.”

“Presidential coattails are not what they used to be.”

“The only poll that counts is the one on Election Day.”

“My change in party will enable me to be reelected.”

“The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.”

“We have got to stop this process of re-voting and re-voting and re-voting.”

“'Controversial' only means 'this will lose you votes'. 'Courageous' means 'this will lose you the election'.”

“We're all right!”

“An election is a competition of ideas.”

“Voter turnout is not an accident. It's the result of hard work.”

“The most important thing to remember about polling is that it's a snapshot, not a prediction.”