Howie Carr Quotes

If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

Most pundits regard an election year session as an opportunity for the two parties to frame issues and garner political advantage in advance of the approaching election.

It's almost a very rough rule of thumb: when Democrats are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around middle-class fears, Democrats win the election; when Republicans are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around cultural fears, Republicans win the election.

The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.

The best thing the Democrats can do is to get Hillary Clinton elected.

I fully appreciate the fact that George W. Bush won 49% of my district.

I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.

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 big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it's going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up - thanks to your help and a lot of others.

Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.

By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year.

I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.

Practical politics is the politics of the coming election.

The Republicans always looked bad three years out of four. But the year they look good is election year.

Don't fall in love with the map. The map doesn't win elections.

Democrats should have learned in 2016 that what counts in American politics is location, not turnout.

There's no question about the fact that for Democrats, Texas is a tough place.

We understand that we're going to be outspent. But we still think we can win decisively because there's some things money can't buy. Among these are votes.

A lot of people think I'm crazy, you know, leaving a Democratic supermajority state to go to the superminority in Congress.

Hillary Clinton's loss has exposed the lack of Democratic power in this country at all levels.

If we run the campaign that we plan on running, we think we're going to win.

The framework of the election favors Donald Trump.

It doesn't matter what the early votes look like. It doesn't matter what the polls look like. We can lose everything.

I think it was a miracle that Trump got elected.