Alex Pareene Quotes

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

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

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning.

When you want to fix the country, you want someone who can beat Hillary Clinton.

In 1984, I managed Walter Mondale's campaign for president. Mondale won the nomination after a bruising battle with Colorado Senator Gary Hart and Reverend Jesse Jackson.

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

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

Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

The brighter the presidential prospect of victory [for a particular party], the greater the crop of available candidates.

Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single democratic primary. I'll predict that right now.

The tactics and strategy of every Presidential election campaign is most influenced by the previous Presidential election.

There is no Republican out there who wants a Hillary Clinton presidency.

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

I don't think this election is about Hillary Clinton. This election is about Donald Trump.

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

I think Republicans are going to do better than Hillary Clinton any time of the day.

The first-in-the-nation Iowa caucus is crucial for every presidential campaign.

The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.

I have never analyzed a presidential election as much as I did the Trump-Clinton race of 2016.

I doubt if there will ever be another Republican president in my lifetime.

Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.

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.

I think it would be an extreme poverty indeed if there weren't more than one person willing to compete for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.

I love Karl Rove. He elected Bush.