Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

What the establishment was trying to do was to position me as a Republican running in the Democratic primary.

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

I lost a lot of territory I really enjoyed having, but there was no doubt I had to do it to help Democrats.

I propose to be mayor for the Republicans, Progressives, Socialists, and independent voters as well as the Democrats.

Never look past the next election, because if you do, you may not get past the next election.

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

I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.

The pro-Hillary groups needed to quit fighting each other and get down to business fighting Republicans.

One of the favorite tricks of the Democrats is to try to get the Republicans to pass over their strongest candidate and nominate instead a candidate who will be easy to beat.

I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.

Republicans need to stop complaining about blacks voting over 90% for Democrats. If they're not willing to compete in those neighborhoods, they will keep losing those voters.

Democrats are just as divided as Republicans these days. Embarrassed by their election losses, they are fighting over everything from their diagnosis of why Trump beat them in 2016 to how much to stake themselves on an oust-him-at-all-costs strategy now. Their internal battles may not be as sexy as the unprecedented hostile takeover of the GOP by an outsider president not beholden to it - yet they are just as consequential.

The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can't get out the vote in the midterm elections.

I am a lifelong Democrat.

I've said that we need to elect Democrats from the school board to the Senate.

Democrats will come together as we should to make sure that we can defeat Donald Trump and elect our party's nominee.

My parents were Democrats, and I was a Democrat. And John Wayne was a Republican.

I joined a Republican Party that was used to losing, used to being browbeaten by the Democrats. I represent a totally different style.

Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning.

Joe Biden stands out from other Democratic candidates not just by taking on President Trump directly but also by seeking to separate Trump from the rest of the Republican Party.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

There's an old saying in politics: You never run the same race twice. Democrats are running the same race three, four, five times. It's an old ploy, and Coloradans see through it.

While Democrats may never adopt the policies of Ronald Reagan, they should follow his golden rule of politics closely. Reagan adamantly instructed his party members to never publicly criticize another Republican.

My father was a Democrat.

Republicans want to use Obamacare in the 2014 elections against Democrats who voted for it. They want to see it fail, even at the expense of people's health.