Bob Dole Quotes

Nobody with the name of Barack Obama will win anything.

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

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

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.

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

Mitt Romney is to presidential campaigns as the Delta House grade point average was to Faber College - the worst in history.

In 2010, I ran for Congress in a Democratic primary against someone who had been there for 18 years. 'The Daily News' endorsed me. I was in 'The New York Times' above the fold. CNBC called this one of the hottest races in the country. On election day, votes for me never went past 19%. I lost.

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

I wasn't very successful at running for office.

Jennifer Palmieri and Joel Benenson and all these people on Hillary's [Clinton] side just can't come to grips with the fact that they lost.

I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.

Romney is a good, intelligent, extraordinarily generous man who put on a great fight. But he didn't understand the country or the people he sought to lead, and that is why he lost.

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.

We lost everything. We even won our own constituency.

Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.

In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon Johnson did not run for a second term.

…it was far better to be known as an ex-secretary than an ex-defeated candidate for governor.

It hurts to lose an election.

If you had let Frannie make you up the night of your debate with Kennedy, you would have been elected President.

George McGovern, why, he couldn't carry Texas even if they caught Dick Nixon fucking a Fort Worth sow.

I didn’t get enough votes.

This election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.

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.

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.

I ran for Congress in 1992, but I lost the election, and I really dropped the idea of ever serving in Congress. Eventually, I went home and became the mayor of my city, West Palm Beach. I was mayor for eight years.