H. W. Brands Quotes

What I find shocking is that there's this thought process that Hillary Clinton is going to be president of the United States, and to even think of Donald Trump is a joke.

Why did Donald Trump become president? I don't know.

I think it was a miracle that Trump got elected.

The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.

In a crazy world where he would get nominated, I'd like to see Obama run against Herman Cain. That would be fantastic. If Herman Cain became president, there'd be a certain sort of morbid curiosity for me.

I don't think Obama will get re-elected.

The undecideds could go one way or the other.

Our American elections have been fought between parties which, roughly, have represented the forces advocating change and those preferring stability.

Ohio chose the president in 2000 and 2004. The independent voters, the so-called swing voters, are the ones who make the difference.

No one expects the tone of an election to be mild-mannered, least of all a presidential one.

In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.

Listen, the guy was not created by coverage from MSNBC and CNN. If you want to blame us for making Donald Trump president because you're unhappy about it, I think you are deluding yourself. Donald Trump hit a nerve.

I think Donald Trump was brought to power by Americans. They voted for him.

I think he could win, absolutely. I think he could win because there's Trump supporters out there who aren't even revealing themselves as such. For me, that's a scary prospect because I think he'd be a disastrous president.

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.

The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.

I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind.

Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.

Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe.

Well, you know, what's so exciting, is that it was a really telling campaign as well. Whenever we start looking at the differences, they could never be more clear.

I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.

According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.