Rodney Alexander Quotes

When I was 33 years old, I ran for United States Congress in New York City. I lost miserably.

I could never be elected.

By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year.

Nobody with the name of Barack Obama will win anything.

John McCain has not been president of the United States. He ran. He ran a spirited campaign. We lost. I hated to see us lose, but there were a lot of things working against us.

I haven't lost an election since middle school.

I'm unelectable in the District of Columbia.

I am running for re-election no matter who runs.

In 2006 it was a horrible election year, and, you know, I lost. But I lost because I continued to be a constant conservative, and the last six years I was someone who was a national figure in the sense that I was the third ranking Republican in leadership and I had just run President Bush's campaign in Pennsylvania.

I don't think that winning the presidency of the United States is a matter of a single issue.

[Thomas] Dewey's view was that if he made no mistakes he would win So we sat around making sure he would make no mistakes. And I think we succeeded, but in fact that isn't the way it went. [Dewey lost]

The candidate who is successful in defining the election is usually the winner.

To be elected to public office requires no qualifications.

The people are always worsted in an election.

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected

You can’t win a Presidential election in this country with just a base.

In politics, you have a one-day sale. You have every customer allowed in the store for one or two minutes on that day, and you have to sell a majority or plurality of the market or you are out of business.

We have lost the elections; and it is natural that each of us will believe, and say, it has been because his peculiar views was not made sufficiently prominent.

I didn’t think that I would ever get elected. After all, you don’t vote for somebody who is attacking Santa Claus.

What would Alex Rose do to us in the next election, Jackie?

It was a good election, a good campaign, and a good friend won.

The outcome of an election depends on the candidate, not the people on the sidelines [advisors, handlers, etc.]

Romney had his chance. He should have won. He choked.

The losing side is comforted, I think, by this idea of magical gurus [masterminding the opponent’s campaign], because it’s less disconcerting than the fact that people just didn’t like them very much.

There are plenty of examples of very wealthy people who have run for office and failed, certainly in Illinois.