Paul Begala Quotes

The Democratic Party eats its young before the election, and then they weep and wail when they lose.

As far as party primaries are concerned, both Republican and Democratic Party primaries are dominated by the most zealous voters, whose views may not reflect the views of most members of their own respective parties, much less the views of those who are going to vote in the November general election. In recent times, each election year has seen each party's nominee selected - or at least subject to veto - by its most extreme wing and then forced to try to move back to the center before the general election. This can only undermine the public's confidence in the integrity of the candidates of both parties.

I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.

Republicans have the habit of giving their possible presidential candidates a saliva test for purity, and then bitching for 4 years because they lost the last election..

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

I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.

I took a lot of heat from Republicans when I stepped out of John McCain's campaign after the 2008 primaries. I still supported McCain, and voted for him, but I just didn't want to be the tip of the spear attacking Obama.

So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington.

The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn't it? The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Iowa caucuses have been a graveyard for hawkish Democrats.

In the Democratic party they call the people who lost the last election losers. In the Republican party, we call them the next nominee.

Here's the problem of the Democratic Party... There's no Breitbart. The problem in the Democratic Party? They haven't had a civil war.

The real fight is within the Republican Party to get it to nominate grassroots-type candidates who the public wants, and not just some 'echo' of the other side.

I will continue to work with the Republican Party to try to encourage primaries.

It was a terrible idea by the Democrats to support Hillary Clinton.

What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race.

The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf of business interests who favor candidates the grassroots hate; the minute that those candidates begin to flag, only loyal Tea Partiers stand behind them.

I am ashamed of some of Democrats in my own party.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

John Kerry was officially endorsed by Dick Gephardt, and Kerry said, 'What did I ever do to you?'

Direct primaries would destroy the party machinery ... and would build up a lot of personal machines, and would make every man a self-seeker, and would degrade politics by turning candidacies into bitter personal wrangles

The passion which all Democrats seem to have for writing in Republican papers, and vice versa, is something astonishing, and it is only exceeded by their unconquerable desire to censure men of their own party.

The people who vote in the primaries are at the ideological edge of their party.

People don't vote parties. They vote individuals.

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