Rudy Giuliani Quotes

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

The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.

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.

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

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

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

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

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.

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.

Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single democratic primary. I'll predict that right now.

Republicans have the habit of giving their possible presidential candidates a saliva test for purity, and then bitching for 4 years because they lost the last election..

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

Frankly, Donald Trump won the candidacy for the Republican Party. Let's get on board and help him win.

Whatever historical or ideological relevance the Iowa caucus has will more than likely not get you to the White House, but it will probably get you a sweet gig at Fox News.

Ted Cruz caught the momentum in Wisconsin that I think that Donald Trump thought was his and his alone.

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.

This is nothing negative about the other candidates. It's just a recognition of the fact that Governor Romney has won more delegates. He's the only person that really has a chance to take the winning number of delegates into the convention.

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.

Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, if your standard-bearer for the presidency is not doing well, it's gonna reflect on the down-ballot.

Remember, many Republicans didn't vote for Mitt Romney. He didn't inspire people.

I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.

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

In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.

I could have beat Obama.