Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Quotes

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

I've been a candidate for office at least eight times. A couple times for mayor, state representative, city council.

I could have beat Obama.

Can we pray for the re-election of George Bush?

In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.

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.

I'm very confident about my ability to earn votes in every neighborhood.

I'm very confident that not only will the other candidates who ran for this office support me but all of their supporters will as well. So yes, I'm very confident that I will get their support.

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.

I have never lost an election yet. I am a winner. Let's just say that.

A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

I'm unelectable in the District of Columbia.

To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.

I didn't have the base I needed to win the election.

We know what we need to do. Let's re-elect President Obama!

You know, this is not about endorsements in the primary. We have to get through a primary first.

I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.

The only test of electability is getting elected.

If I can win the nomination, there’s no reason I can’t win this election.

I don't think I voted in 2000.

Many people would vote for me, I'm quite sure.

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.

If I ran as a Dem, I know I could beat Hillary Clinton. And if it was me vs. Trump, I would crush him. No doubt about it.