Lionel Shriver Quotes

Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single democratic primary. I'll predict that right now.

I think it would be an extreme poverty indeed if there weren't more than one person willing to compete for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.

What I find shocking is that there's this thought process that Hillary Clinton is going to be president of the United States, and to even think of Donald Trump is a joke.

It really kind of looks like now that John Kerry is on his way to the presidential nomination. The only thing that can sink John Kerry now is an Al Gore endorsement.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

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.

Iowa caucuses have been a graveyard for hawkish Democrats.

Donald Trump defeated not one but two political parties on his way to winning the Presidency.

Hillary [Clinton] was selected by only 8 percent of the population. [Donald] Trump, by only 7 percent

When you want to fix the country, you want someone who can beat Hillary Clinton.

For Hillary Clinton, Iowa was a tough state for her in 2008, and she's put a lot of effort into fixing those mistakes.

All the way back to 2010, the takeover of Congress, there is an unnerved part of the public that understands the history of Hillary Clinton. We've seen her for decades. They understand Donald Trump. There's no disclosure needed there. The sour grapes that we are experiencing isn't going to make a better tasting wine for the Democrats in the future.

The best thing the Democrats can do is to get Hillary Clinton elected.

The good thing about having a Republican primary is that the voters will decide our nominee - unlike the Democrats.

In 1984, I managed Walter Mondale's campaign for president. Mondale won the nomination after a bruising battle with Colorado Senator Gary Hart and Reverend Jesse Jackson.

I've been watching and involved in presidential politics since 1960 when I first voted, and the Republican, the conservative candidate in the primary is always going to lean right and come back to the center for the general - the opposite for the Democrat.

Democrats do have a historic race going. Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama. Normally, when you see a black man or a woman president an asteroid is about to hit the Statue of Liberty.

If you look at that 2008 Democratic primary, there was no more formidable, unstoppable candidate - other than an incumbent President - in modern times than Hillary Clinton.

The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.

I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected.

I represent the Democratic party... I've never been nor do I ever plan to be a John McCain supporter. I support Barack Obama.

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

I read 'Game Change.' If you want to relive the campaign, that book is unbelievable. It's great. It's the book of that campaign. It brought all the memories back of everything with Clinton and Obama, and Sarah Palin and McCain, and choosing her, and John Edwards. It was an interesting book.

You know, let me be very clear. I supported Barack Obama originally.