Mara Liasson Quotes

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

People who are desperate for Barack Obama to win the presidency are capable of practically anything.

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.

It was gonna be a race [2016] that set a foundation for the Left in the future. But given the math, I didn't think he was gonna make it. And so I started to shift to Hillary [Clinton] and to discussions of the platform and discussions of what to do.

Hillary Clinton, [Democrats] say, leads the popular vote by two million, and a shift of a few votes in a few states would have won the election.

In 2016, Hillary Clinton had so much more money than the Trump campaign, yet, we see who won that election.

To defeat Donald Trump, the Democrats must run a stellar cast of all-stars in their primary.

In 1972, former Texas Governor John Connally led 'Democrats for Nixon.'

My worry is that Donald Trump may inspire copycats, also in Europe. That's why I hope Hillary Clinton wins.

I am as conservative as anyone running in this [president's] race, but I am a conservative that can win. That's a big deal.

Race has been a big issue in this [presidency] campaign [2016].

[Hillary] Clinton, she conceded. [Donald Trump] beat her.

Yes, the presidential race is very close, and some public polls show it getting closer as we go into the final hours, but in one sense it's actually been stable for months.

I hope Hillary Clinton runs for president.

I just want to note that 43 million young people in debt is enough to win a three-way Presidential race.

I do believe that 2016 is going to be a great year for Democrats... because we are right on the key issues.

I think Donald Trump and Jeb Bush are the frontrunners. It's kind of like the race between the tortoise and the bad hair.

It was the Democratic Party, it was the Presidential election. We elected a president [Barack Obama]; we didn't elect a king. So all the speculation in the next three months - people camped out at his house, and wondering who's coming to visit, who's going to be the Secretary of State - that all struck me as inane and stupid.

I mean, [Donald Trump] won by a sizable margin.

The good news is, the cake is baked. Barack Obama will not be reelected president.

Any candidate who'd offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon - someone with a different concept of the presidency - could have challenged him and come very close to beating him.

I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.

You can bet - a good chance of Hillary [Clinton], a good chance of [Donald] Trump - but not 100% in either case.

It turned out that Democrats did not come out in the numbers they came out for, for Barack Obama. Five million fewer voters than went for Barack Obama back in 2012. So, what went wrong?

Howard Dean dropped out of the race today. At least he can't claim his voice wasn't heard.