Kellyanne Conway Quotes

I have never understood the Iowa caucus.

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

The political parties have no role except to stage the conventions, where you celebrate a decision that's already been made elsewhere.

So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.

Last I looked - and I'm not a candidate - but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It's most states are winners take all.

Conventions don't nominate people anymore. Primaries do.

In our system today, many people don’t have to win general elections; they just have to win primaries.

Caucus

I will continue to work with the Republican Party to try to encourage primaries.

The point is that you see candidates running in these different kinds of contests. A primary shows you something that's different from a state party convention, which shows you something that is different than what a caucus shows you.

Campaigns are conducted specifically because of the Electoral College, and people accept it and they understand it. Whether they know it or not, they accept it.

Because so many voters happen to be illiterate, India invented the party symbol, so that voters who could not read the name of their candidate could vote for him or her anyway by recognizing the symbol under which they campaigned.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

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.

Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican.

Iowa caucuses have been a graveyard for hawkish Democrats.

A caucus is basically an undemocratic method of selecting a candidate.

Nobody who ever runs for President should be the leader of a party.

This day I learned that the caucus club meets at certain times in the garret of Tom Dawes, the adjutant of the Boston regiment.... There they smoke tobacco till you cannot see from one end of the room to another. There they drink flip, I suppose, and there they choose a moderator who puts questions to the vote regularly; and selectmen, assessors, collectors, firewards, and representatives are regularly chosen before they are chosen in the town [of Boston].

If the question at Chicago had been who shall be the next President? instead of who shall be the candidate? beyond all question the choice would have fallen on New York's illustrious statesman .

We should hold the presidential elections at least a few weeks before the congressional election so that the voters will know which party will control the White House.

The main question that is decided by an election in our country is, which political party shall have the privilege of dispensing the offices of Government?

In the Democratic party they call the people who lost the last election losers. In the Republican party, we call them the next nominee.

Look at those Republican [Presidential Primary Nomination] debates. I feel embarrassed as an American when I hear them orate.