Tim Ryan Quotes

Any attempt to dilute my support for Sen. Obama will not succeed.

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

The election campaign is no time to get involved in very, very serious issues.

Voters don't have to love him, Romney advisers say, but they will respect him.

I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

It isn't that I was born thinking I had to be president. I'm getting a lot of encouragement to run from people across the country. I don't believe this is a rash decision.

I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude.

I guess for every government - for many governments, they only have short vision, they only have three-year term or a four-year term. So they have to make sure they get enough support from the voter. So they probably have to deal with more short-term issues which are related to being re-elected.

People want change. How is Barack going to do it? I think McCain can bring change.

We can take this country back. All we need is to nominate the right candidate. It's no more complicated than that.

John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

Governor Romney is a good debater.

When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

The hardest thing about a presidential election is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Smilin' for the Presidency

Review" is a great word in politics. It will last you almost an entire election cycle if you play it right.

A political campaign is a movement. It's built around a single candidate. It will evaporate when he or she gets elected.

There comes a time in every political convention where I eat my words.

I never had a political thought in my life until they asked me to join the Richard Nixon Presidential Campaign.

Donald Trump is at his very best, at his very best, when he talks about the issues.

Honestly, if you are going to run for public office, I think it's incumbent... to speak up.