Hamilton Jordan Quotes

Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

All presidential elections will ultimately be a fight for the middle.

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.

Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.

It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.

This could be a close election. I can pretty much tell which states are going to be close. If you would start two or three weeks before Election Day and saturate those critical states with [TV Advertising] spots, it could swing the election.

We had the election won. Debates couldn't help us and might hurt.

The Republicans always looked bad three years out of four. But the year they look good is election year.

The tactics and strategy of every Presidential election campaign is most influenced by the previous Presidential election.

As a longtime political operative, I know firsthand how a vote here or a vote there can make a huge difference in a close election.

I've had four presidential candidates visit me in the tents, and they all lost. I tried to get Hillary down here, but she's too smart. She won't come to the tents.

The framework of the election favors Donald Trump.

President Trump's coalition clearly involves creating massive turnout in areas where he's popular.

Most pundits regard an election year session as an opportunity for the two parties to frame issues and garner political advantage in advance of the approaching election.

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

If the most liberal man that's ever been in office can get elected when 20 percent of the population identifies as liberal then I think we can elect a conservative when 40 percent of the population identifies themselves as conservative.

We don't want someone who will get 98 percent of the vote. We want someone who will get 51 percent of the vote.

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

The undecideds could go one way or the other.

You're losing in Ohio, but, don't worry, we're winning in Pennsylvania.

You're not trying to win 100 percent of the vote. You're after 50 percent plus one. It doesn't matter if you tick off the other 49 percent.

President James Buchanan's margin of victory in the election was fifty thousand dollars.

I realise that in an electoral campaign, you don't want to antagonise large groups which are highly motivated.

Candidates matter. Campaigns matter. 'He can win' or 'She can't win' is up there with, 'I'm going to lose 10 pounds, win the lottery, and live forever.' Saying it does not make it so.