Tom Daschle Quotes

Conventions don't nominate people anymore. Primaries do.

The main question that is decided by an election in our country is, which political party shall have the privilege of dispensing the offices of Government?

The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.

It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.

I think we should have the majority of the party's voters decide who they want as their nominee.

Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee.

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.

The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise.

Outcome of these elections is not in doubt due to simple fact that there is only one candidate for each position…. You may be wondering why party propaganda machine attaches such importance to electoral campaign and surrounds it with such unparalleled pomp and circumstance.

If the question at Chicago had been who shall be the next President? instead of who shall be the candidate? beyond all question the choice would have fallen on New York's illustrious statesman .

Divide the Continent into four Divisions, out of which a certain number of persons should be nominated, and out of that nomination to appoint a Senate

Parties do often nominate losers.

I think the trend to move towards caucuses and conventions, whether to nominate senators, governors or presidential nominees, I think the move towards caucuses and conventions is a very bad one, and that our party should reward those states that spend the time and money to have primaries.

It is not nothing to ask someone holding an election certificate in the United States Senate to provide his or her vote.

In 21st-century America, as in Georgian Britain, elections are raucous, flamboyant, flag-waving, expensive, and sometimes ramshackle things.

Luckily, voting machines register only 'yes' or 'no,' not 'yes, but I hate myself'.

The voters of the country decide who they want to support, and the delegates are elected to also make a determination of who would be in the best interest of the party and the country to be our nominee.

The RNC, per our bylaws, cannot engage in primaries. That is not our role. We actually have a rule that prohibits us from picking a candidate in the primaries.

The 2009 elections were the first my party faced. Still MNS candidates lost by lesser margins. Each of my candidate got more than one lakh votes.

Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

PACs don't vote in the district; people do.

There are a lot of problems with democracy. We need to think about how to find the people most qualified for the job.

I spent almost two years trying to get my father elected president.

You can protect the integrity of elections without stopping anyone from voting.

It is a huge myth that our voices don't matter, that our vote doesn't count.