Mike Huckabee Quotes

Elections are not about solving anything. Elections are about winning.

In my primary, I only won by 23 votes in that one, so every vote really does count, and I want to make sure I get as many as I possibly can.

I would've easily won the popular vote, much easier, in my opinion, than winning the electoral college.

A big win for [Hillary] Clinton would allow her to claim that the country rejected Trumpism, while a narrow win leaves her limping into office with the highest unfavorable ratings for any new president.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

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

In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take your issues to voters, and you put them out there, and people respond, or they don't.

The candidate who is successful in defining the election is usually the winner.

Political candidates are always looking to capture the future.

Without television, Richard Nixon would not have a chance. He would not have a prayer of being elected because the press would not let him get through to the people.

You can't win an election with money alone.

Let's do this. November 8, let's win. You are going to look back at this election and say, this is by far the most important vote you have ever cast for anyone at any time.

When I left the secretary of state office, I had a 69% approval rating. Once I start running for office and all the incoming you know is battering away, people are going to say, "Hey, wait a minute - what's that mean, what's that mean?" I get all of that, but I don't think we do any service to our country or the voters if we descend into the kind of insult fest that he seems to relish.

The future of any leader or political systems is to be determined by the people of the country.

The polls tell us something, but they don't tell us everything. They don't tell us how people are going to show up on Election Day.

I made it clear that I can run a positive campaign and do it better.

The midterms are a chance for people to vote out those they believe are failing to address the concerns of citizens.

Politics is a conversation between the contestant and the voter.

The basic job of any campaign is to translate grassroots energy into turnout.

I think, at the end of the day, if voters don't see the substance and the merit of the policies you're advocating, it won't matter what you do on social media.

When you are in election mode, you are focused only on winning.

The voters of Hawaii have said loud and clear that it's not money that wins elections.

There's nothing easy about running for president, I can tell you. It's tough, it's nasty, it's mean, it's vicious, it's beautiful. When you win, it's beautiful. And we are going to start - we are going to start winning for our country.

There's a normal tendency in the campaign, during a crisis, for the country to rally around the White House. vThat may help Al Gore in this campaign, but on the other hand, George W. Bush handled himself so well the other night on foreign policy that I think it fortified him just before this crisis broke.

It looks like they [the Republicans] don't want to win if it means winning with [Donald] Trump. They must really hate Trump out there.