Dana Perino Quotes

There is a reality to the primary process, and you don't win primaries by being ahead in national polls. You win them by winning Iowa, by winning New Hampshire, by winning South Carolina, winning Florida.

You can’t win a Presidential election in this country with just a base.

As political primaries approach, national media attention focuses on Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.

New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state.

This could be a close election. I can pretty much tell which states are going to be close. If you would start two or three weeks before Election Day and saturate those critical states with [TV Advertising] spots, it could swing the election.

Michigan is a state we should have won in 2016, and we didn't, and I want to understand why.

As a Democrat following the 2012 presidential election closely, I was happy to see that South Carolina voted overwhelmingly for Newt Gingrich, a candidate almost too easy for President Barack Obama to beat in the fall. I was not, however, surprised at the state's gaffe.

California is going to be quite good for the Democrats. But the rest of the country is a draw.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

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

Presidents are not elected in these crowded halls, with cheering thousands. They are elected by the fireside in November.

You're losing in Ohio, but, don't worry, we're winning in Pennsylvania.

As the country's third-largest state by population, Florida is the crown jewel in the Electoral College among swing states.

I spent almost two years trying to get my father elected president.

Pennsylvania is one of the most important states in the country when it comes to the election of the president of the United States.

The framework of the election favors Donald Trump.

The first-in-the-nation Iowa caucus is crucial for every presidential campaign.

I have never analyzed a presidential election as much as I did the Trump-Clinton race of 2016.

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

It was a presidential election year, and as a member of a consortium of Ivy League radio stations, we participated in 'network' coverage of election night.

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.

One thing without any question that is true today and that is that the winner of the 28-minute commercial is President Barack Obama.

The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.

Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.