David Broder Quotes

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

Any time you have a competitive situation like politics is, there are winners, and there are people who don't win, and their supporters can sometimes be very emotional.

You've got to lose a few [elections] before you learn what the American system is all about.

The last I checked, this is an election, and in an election we play politics.

I've covered a lot of presidential campaigns.

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

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get.

You know, this is not about endorsements in the primary. We have to get through a primary first.

Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate.

Presidential politics is not like a golf tournament. There’s no prize for second place.

There’s nothing more humbling than losing a few elections.

We are narrowing the field of those who will run for office when we allow them so little privacy.

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

We never go against a candidate for one or two votes. You can’t.

Anything can happen when people run for office.

I always say if anybody is running for president, for office, I always take them seriously.

In presidential elections, I think people focus way too much on ideology.

I'm tired now of the elections.

If elected, I will win.

I think it would be an extreme poverty indeed if there weren't more than one person willing to compete for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.

Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in the accumulation of minority interests.

I've been through so many different political races.

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.