Carlos Lopez-Cantera Quotes

I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.

I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.

Any man who can carry a Republican primary is a man.

I will continue to work with the Republican Party to try to encourage primaries.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

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.

I will support the Republican nominee.

So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

A caucus is basically an undemocratic method of selecting a candidate.

The people who vote in the primaries are at the ideological edge of their party.

I could probably win the Presidency if I ran, but I don’t think I could win the nomination.

It is true that in some states the only important vote is the primary, when you choose between different members of the same party. In these states, where our two-party system usually does not function, it is important that everyone vote in the primaries. Elsewhere throughout the country, citizens should vote both in the primaries and in the final election, for where the two-party system works they will always have a choice between party candidates.

As far as party primaries are concerned, both Republican and Democratic Party primaries are dominated by the most zealous voters, whose views may not reflect the views of most members of their own respective parties, much less the views of those who are going to vote in the November general election. In recent times, each election year has seen each party's nominee selected - or at least subject to veto - by its most extreme wing and then forced to try to move back to the center before the general election. This can only undermine the public's confidence in the integrity of the candidates of both parties.

Caucus

… to get the Republican nomination for President, you have to be an outsider.

You have to listen to people that have chosen the nominee of our Republican Party. I think it would be foolish to ignore them.

The voters of the country decide who they want to support, and the delegates are elected to also make a determination of who would be in the best interest of the party and the country to be our nominee.

What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race.

My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

I wouldn't vote for Obama.

I want to caucus in Iowa. I'll caucus all over the state. I don't caucus in California. You don't caucus where you live. It doesn't look good.

I have never understood the Iowa caucus.

Well, let me just say - I mean, I'm not a person who's going to vote for any of the potential Republican nominees for the presidency of the United States.