David Letterman Quotes

I'm going to do everything I can to help Hillary Clinton get elected and I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that Donald Trump never comes within shouting distance of the White House.

We can't have Donald Trump in the White House.

Keeping Crooked Hillary Clinton out of the White House!

The [Hillary] Clinton campaign was still operating with a White House mentality.

I'm hearing echoes of Bill Clinton, circa 1996, in President Obama's reelection rhetoric.

I am a bit biased. I co-chair the campaign effort of George W. Bush.

We should remember the campaign advertising will be only a smaller portion of the President's total exposure.

The hardest thing about a presidential election is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.

People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House.

The election is in full-swing. Republicans have taken out round-the-clock ads promoting George Bush. Don't we already have that? It's called Fox News.

When they [Democrats] running all these ads that are characterizing [Mitt] Romney as a rich, insensitive, out of touch, aloof nerd who loved having his dog on the roof of the station wagon, who didn't care when the wife of an employee dies with cancer.

Sorry to disappoint the liberals who tuned in tonight to gloat about Obama's lead in every poll, but I am not worried. McCain may be behind, but the man is a fighter. He doesn't know the meaning of the word 'quit.' He used to, but it was stored in the same part of his brain that remembered to vet his running mate.

South Carolina put George H.W. Bush into the White House. But George W. Bush into the White House and sent Jeb Bush back to Miami.

I hope Donald Trump doesn't become president of the United States and I expect the people of the United States will have the good sense not to elect him.

I work really long hours and work a lot and have done press tours and junkets, but there is nothing like a presidential campaign that I have experienced before... I think at one point we visited three different cities in one state in 12 hours. It's exhausting.

If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.

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

John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.

There is not alternative to speechwriters. You can’t run for president and write your own speeches.

We have got to defeat Donald Trump, and we have got to elect Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine.

John McCain has not been president of the United States. He ran. He ran a spirited campaign. We lost. I hated to see us lose, but there were a lot of things working against us.

A presidential candidate needs a slogan.