Rick Perry Quotes

When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.

Iowa caucuses have been a graveyard for hawkish Democrats.

Honestly, I just don’t see it [running for the Presidency]. I tried it once…. You can go out with me to Iowa. You wouldn’t believe it. You’d never go to Iowa again.

I campaigned for Obama, and that was such a big component of getting the vote out, was social media.

Carly Fiorina has campaigned hard in New Hampshire to earn support from voters.

The 2008 battle in Iowa for the Democratic caucus was perhaps the most titanic single nominating contest in the history of modern politics.

Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning.

Whether you like it or not, Santorum is as good as President Obama with a crowd.

I think that if the Democratic Party focuses on nominating who will make the best president, that's going to be a critical mistake. There's only one question at the end of the day, and that question is, Can the potential nominee beat Donald Trump?

I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.

The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.

In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.

This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!

I have never understood the Iowa caucus.

I don't have any interest whatsoever in getting back out there and bashing Hillary Clinton.

As I get close to my election, I want to spend more time in my district and focus on my reelection.

Well, let me just say - I mean, I'm not a person who's going to vote for any of the potential Republican nominees for the presidency of the United States.

The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.

Presidential politics is not like a golf tournament. There’s no prize for second place.

In the Democratic party they call the people who lost the last election losers. In the Republican party, we call them the next nominee.

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.

Anybody having a chance to become President usually tries to do so.

We never go against a candidate for one or two votes. You can’t.

The people who show up at the early primaries are very passionate and not much interested in compromise.

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