Amit Shah Quotes

If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

You win elections with coalitions. You don't win elections by ideologically cleansing your party.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

It was obvious after the '97 election that as long as there were two small-c conservative parties trying to destroy each other, the Liberals would win every election.

I don't write off any political party. I believe in strengthening the BJP and winning elections and not depend on writing off parties.

Political parties exist to get bums on seats.

McCain needs Hillary to run because that's what keeps the Republican coalition together. She helps unite the Republican base.

When I was with the Labor Party, I'd get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what I wrote, or proposed to write about, wasn't conducive to their policies or to electoral success.

Republicans in the South could not win elections by talking about issues. You had to make the case that the other guy, the other candidate, was a bad guy.

Have we come to the point where the Democratic Party needs a Republican President?

If the Democratic Party is to win in November, it will have to fly with both its wings—the liberal and the conservative.

There are certain elections where policy matters more than others….Personality without a platform will not cut it.

… the truth is Walter Mondale in 1984 had a perfectly unified campaign — every interest group was behind him …. In party politics, unity is very much overrated.

I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.

Labour's support in Scotland depends on their ability to be electable. If they are divided and unelectable, what's the point?

Labour has to be a big tent that appeals to everyone - not just its activists.

Centrist voters typically decide general elections, so hard-left or hard-right platforms don't help.

The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.

All political parties, if they are to be successful, have to be broad churches.

Confronting Republicans can definitely mobilize a disaffected Democratic base.

After helping the Republican National Committee address some of the troubling deficiencies the party faced after 2012, as outlined in its so-called autopsy report, and witnessing some real progress in our outreach to women in the ensuing years, I did not expect an egomaniacal arsonist to come along and set all that ablaze.

If the [Republican] party wants to have an ideological debate, it's never going to win anything in a major way.

The first time I ran for office in 2002, running for governor in Massachusetts against Mitt Romney, we actually worked with a Democratic legislator to file that bill, so that there would be no risk of splitting the vote. The Democrats had about 85% of the Legislature at that time. They could have easily protected their access to the governorship. But they refused to do so. They wouldn't let the bill out of committee.

There is hardly any politically minded man who acknowledges and agrees with every point of the program of a political party.