Quotes About Elections

In most countries, a lopsided election represents a mandate that the winning party could then use to implement their agenda, but the U.S. political system seems to have been made to prevent such an occurrence.

There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.

I think the issue that is really going to hurt the Republican Party is the right-to-life issue. I think they have painted themselves into a real corner.

President Obama is now losing to 'Republican Nominee' in polls - no name needed.

There's no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

Democrats tend to think of elections as cycles. Republicans don't: It's ongoing and constant.

Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot.

While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease.

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

And I think for some - not all - but for some Democrats, the issue of immigration is better politically if they just leave it the way it is now because they can use it against Republicans.

Well, I'm like most Americans, we don't vote by party, we both by the person because a person is bigger than the party, which is why sometimes the Democrats get in and sometimes the Republicans get in.

I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.

Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself.

The Washington establishment think Republicans win elections by you don't stand for anything, you keep your head down, you don't rock the boat. You know what? Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls.

People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.

Republicans will own Congress.

I don't have the luxury of just hanging out in my primary and, once I win the primary, I'm fine. I have to talk to Democrats and Republicans.

I think Republicans are going to do better than Hillary Clinton any time of the day.

Because Republicans have no ideas, they want to turn elections into the battle of dollars.

I've got the most beautiful district. I can understand why Republicans want it.

In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.

There is no such thing as Dravidian ideology. Some people just made it up, maybe to win elections.

Virginians can choose to continue to elect criminal, illegal aliens like MS-13 - and by the way, they are animals - or, we can arrest them, deport them back to the countries where they came from, and build the wall!