Pat Robertson Quotes

Frankly, Donald Trump won the candidacy for the Republican Party. Let's get on board and help him win.

Remember, many Republicans didn't vote for Mitt Romney. He didn't inspire people.

The 1980 Republican presidential contest might have been as good a roster of candidates as ever fielded by any party.

If Bill Weld were at the top of the ticket, it would be very easy for me to vote for Bill Weld for president.

I will support the Republican nominee. I don't think that's going to be Donald Trump. My party has historically nominated someone who's a mainstream conservative.

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.

To defeat Donald Trump, the Democrats must run a stellar cast of all-stars in their primary.

Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, if your standard-bearer for the presidency is not doing well, it's gonna reflect on the down-ballot.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.

I am in favor of General Taylor as the Whig candidate for the Presidency because I am satisfied that we can elect him, that he will give us a Whig administration and that we cannot elect any other Whig.

It’s hard to be a front-runner in the Democratic Party. My party tends to destroy front-runners.

Republicans have the habit of giving their possible presidential candidates a saliva test for purity, and then bitching for 4 years because they lost the last election..

We have got to defeat Donald Trump, and we have got to elect Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine.

The Republican establishment who did not want Trump to win - either the primary, in some cases the general - they were unable to do anything that impacted the actual vote.

I think that for the United States, Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I'm not so sure about Donald Trump.

As a Democrat following the 2012 presidential election closely, I was happy to see that South Carolina voted overwhelmingly for Newt Gingrich, a candidate almost too easy for President Barack Obama to beat in the fall. I was not, however, surprised at the state's gaffe.

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.

It's almost a very rough rule of thumb: when Democrats are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around middle-class fears, Democrats win the election; when Republicans are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around cultural fears, Republicans win the election.

In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.

If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.