Jimmy Carter Quotes

What ultimately defeated George W. Bush is that when push came to shove he was a wimp governed by his personal animosities

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

It hurts to lose an election.

No matter how great an improvement the new tariff may be, it almost always results in the party in power losing the election.

This President [George W. Bush] is a miserable failure.

Honey, there go 20 million votes, but we’ll get over it.

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 lost my election because of my campaign, not because of what anyone else did.

Their failures, both Obama's and Kay Hagan's, are obvious.

You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side.

I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.

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

I believe that President Obama is here for a reason, but that doesn't mean that he has to stay there next year. The American people have an opportunity to have a say and so I think we just have to do what we think is right - and see what the outcome is. God's got a plan.

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.

Mitt Romney is a nice guy. But, we know where nice guys finish in politics.

It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost.

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.

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

President Lincoln is timid, vacillating, and inefficient.

It is contrary to political precedent for the voters to kick out an administration in time of prosperity.

Senator and Mrs. Birch Bayh have slashed the price of their Potomac [MD] home to way below market. They haven't been so beaten down since Dan Quayle did it to 'em in 1980.

The retiring head of the minority wing of a divided party that had been repudiated at the polls.

I don't think the first hundred days measures the success or failure of any President.

People who won those states wanted to see their states in the victory column last night. They won elections in the streets and lost them in the suites.