Sixto Rodriguez Quotes

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've been through so many different political races.

I'm unelectable in the District of Columbia.

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

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.

Anything can happen when people run for office.

I haven't lost an election since middle school.

Working people vote!

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

To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

Can we pray for the re-election of George Bush?

I've been in a lot of elections.

In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

This is about these particular candidates in this particular year. That's what motivates me.

Political elections are not life and death.

The Thinking Fella Votes McKellar!

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

As important as issues are, as important as money is ..., you've got to have good candidates.

I would consider running for office. But not for mayor.

My father-in-law wanted me to join politics when the Madhya Pradesh election was going on.

When I was 27, having never run for office before, I decided to run for Congress.

Remember, at the end of the day [election] campaigns are always about the candidates.

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.