Rick Santorum Quotes

And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate.

All presidential elections will ultimately be a fight for the middle.

There are a lot of undecideds in this country that are hopefully right of center, not left of center.

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.

If you are a Democrat, and you get less than 90% of the black vote, you are going to likely lose your election.

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

The 2014 election was not a repudiation of government in general.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

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

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

The undecideds could go one way or the other.

I don't see how a young American can vote for, well, can vote for a Democrat.

In some ways, I would be absolutely fascinated if Trump gets elected.

I think it was a miracle that Trump got elected.

I mean, I got reelected in 2016. Donald Trump took Montana by 20 points. I won by four. Twenty-five to 30% of my voters voted for Donald Trump. And that's not, for me, changing who I am.

Come 2012, I am not going to be voting for someone based on who I think would be the most fun to hang out and have a beer with. I am going to be voting for the person that I think will have the best chance of beating President Obama and gaining votes from independents.

Forty percent of Americans describe themselves as conservative, 36% independents, and 20% liberal. And these independents are abandoning the Democrat Party in droves. And a key point, they're abandoning the Democrat Party without the Republican Party giving them any reason to go to them. They're just abandoning the Democrats because they don't like what they see.

About forty percent of the people vote Democrat. About forty percent vote Republican. Of those eighty percent, most wouldn't change their votes if Adolf Hitler was running against Abe Lincoln - or against FDR. . . . That leaves twenty percent of the people who swing back one way or another . . . the true independents. . . . That twenty percent controls the destiny of the country.

I would say the reason that Tim Bishop electorally was able to get more votes, if you were just going to analyze registration and numbers, is that he had a quarter of the Republican vote, every election. No one is getting a quarter of the Republican vote from me.

I'm not going to opine as to whether I think a particular candidate can beat Donald Trump or not.

The framework of the election favors Donald Trump.

I've been watching and involved in presidential politics since 1960 when I first voted, and the Republican, the conservative candidate in the primary is always going to lean right and come back to the center for the general - the opposite for the Democrat.

The real problem with the Republican Party is that for decades it has shifted constantly to the right politically. Consequently, the Republican Party is picking up a very different demographic than it used to, a less well-educated demographic of people who are more prone to authoritarianism.