Ed Gillespie Quotes

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

The first thing I remember feeling about the 2016 U.S. election was a kind of speechlessness.

In the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, American voters were forced to choose between a liberal Democrat and weak establishment Republicans. Democrats won both times.

It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us.

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.

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.

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.

The 2014 election was not a repudiation of government in general.

Scott Brown may be the last Republican to win a statewide fight in Massachusetts for a very long time. He caught the machine flat-footed in January 2010 when he out-hustled Martha Coakley and stole the Senate seat Ted Kennedy held all those years. And since then, the Democrats haven't lost a single statewide fight.

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

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

Confronting Republicans can definitely mobilize a disaffected Democratic base.

Listen, the guy was not created by coverage from MSNBC and CNN. If you want to blame us for making Donald Trump president because you're unhappy about it, I think you are deluding yourself. Donald Trump hit a nerve.

We just can't stay in a safe Republican seat and sit back and watch while this country goes down the wrong path.

Everybody in this race is against Obama, okay? So saying you're against Obama, against Obamacare, all the rest, it's all fine, well and good, except it doesn't move you forward.

The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.

Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.

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.

I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business.

The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.

As the Republicans run to the crazy Tea Party right, they leave behind the huge mass of genuinely moderate and independent Americans that make up the majority of voters. The ones that used to consider themselves now-extinct moderate Republicans. They're up for grabs. And the Democrats have to grab them!

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

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