Pat Sajak Quotes

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.

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.

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

I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.

In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take your issues to voters, and you put them out there, and people respond, or they don't.

The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.

The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.

The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

Scott Brown may be the last Republican to win a statewide fight in Massachusetts for a very long time. He caught the machine flat-footed in January 2010 when he out-hustled Martha Coakley and stole the Senate seat Ted Kennedy held all those years. And since then, the Democrats haven't lost a single statewide fight.

The GOP can't even envision winning the White House if we lose a significant percentage of the Hispanic vote.

I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It's just hard to get comfortable with Gore - it was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.

Voters are looking for credibility and are wary of polish. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which candidate can more deftly read a teleprompter.

Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

Practical politics is the politics of the coming election.

Middle class voters are the mega-prize in American politics.

It is never the case that a surrogate can deliver [votes] like a principle can.

Nothing Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton did together will ever have as much impact on election results as the partisan makeup of congressional districts around the country.

Voters will judge you on what sort of crowd you draw [when making public appearances] both in quality and numbers.

The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.

If Donald Trump has proved anything, it is that there is nothing more powerful than a candidate's voice.

The best thing the Democrats can do is to get Hillary Clinton elected.