Kenneth Clarke Quotes

Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi are our star campaigners. Our party will fight under their leadership.

My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.

The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.

I've got three little kids at home, and I'm trying to save this country from itself. I'm not here to play political power games, and I've had enough of people playing political power games, and this has just gone on too long.

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

In choosing Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney made a fantastic choice and a bold statement to the American people.

I really want to be governor when I have a partner in the White House.

You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.

I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.

We can take this country back. All we need is to nominate the right candidate. It's no more complicated than that.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

I have a problem with Mitt Romney. And it's big problem - one that extends beyond our ideological differences. My big concern is that Mitt Romney wants to become president for no other reason than because there's a possibility he can win.

When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.

I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, 'Make America great again.'

I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

I do not think that the social conservative movement have the ability to elect a President but they have the ability to block.

The term Party is applied equally to the peaceful parties of America and to the Communist Party of Russia, the Nazi Party of Germany, and the Fascist Party of Italy. The methodology of these parties varies, but their fundamental objective-to place and keep their leaders in control of the government - is the same.

Why Great Men Are Not Chosen President

Don't get mad. Don't get even. Get elected.

Leadership and strength are the key phrases of presidential politics.

Re-election campaigns of sitting presidents are always about the sitting president.

If you constantly cross your own centers of power, you lose the energy that wins elections.

My old friend Judge Johnson used to say, "The Presidency is unlike the Kingdom of Heaven—those who seek shall never find.