Ayanna Pressley Quotes

I'm very confident that not only will the other candidates who ran for this office support me but all of their supporters will as well. So yes, I'm very confident that I will get their support.

I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio.

I'm not afraid of elections. I've won every election I've fought in.

I haven't lost an election since middle school.

I won in a primary, so I understand primary fights.

I am running for re-election no matter who runs.

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.

In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.

The candidate who is successful in defining the election is usually the winner.

I certainly recognize that there will only be 10 or 12 challengers [for congressional seats] in the whole country who win, but my job is to be one of them.

If I can win the nomination, there’s no reason I can’t win this election.

You can’t win a Presidential election in this country with just a base.

In politics, you have a one-day sale. You have every customer allowed in the store for one or two minutes on that day, and you have to sell a majority or plurality of the market or you are out of business.

I didn’t think that I would ever get elected. After all, you don’t vote for somebody who is attacking Santa Claus.

Every challenger has come forward and said he's going to challenge me and win because I'm out of touch with the constituents. We run a race, the election comes, and the majority of voters disagree with them.

Every time I have fought elections, I have improved my victory margins.

I've been a candidate for office at least eight times. A couple times for mayor, state representative, city council.

When you are in election mode, you are focused only on winning.

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

They're saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger.

I have never lost an election yet. I am a winner. Let's just say that.

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.

In 2004, I ran for Congress and lost. In 2006, I ran again and won - defeating Richard Pombo, a seven-term Republican incumbent.

If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.