Ari Fleischer Quotes

I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it's going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up - thanks to your help and a lot of others.

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.

Presidential politics is not like a golf tournament. There’s no prize for second place.

I have never seen a poll elect anyone

The tactics and strategy of every Presidential election campaign is most influenced by the previous Presidential election.

Momentum has always counted for something, not everything, but it's always perceived as being something that matters in American politics.

Candidates matter. Campaigns matter. 'He can win' or 'She can't win' is up there with, 'I'm going to lose 10 pounds, win the lottery, and live forever.' Saying it does not make it so.

I've had many conversations with the Clinton family. We're friends. It's hard, very tough. I think on Election Day, everybody felt pretty good. I think the Trump campaign thought they were gonna lose.

I don't believe in the polls. I try to concentrate on the day of elections.

I've had four presidential candidates visit me in the tents, and they all lost. I tried to get Hillary down here, but she's too smart. She won't come to the tents.

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.

If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

I think people are going to have a choice to make in the fall. But I think there's no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to gain control. There's no doubt about that.

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.

Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate.

There is constantly a war going on between the two parties for the populist vote. The populist vote is always the swing vote.

Presidential elections are always pocketbook elections.

All presidential elections will ultimately be a fight for the middle.

Middle class voters are the mega-prize in American politics.

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

An election is like a horse-race, in that you can tell more about it the next day.

President James Buchanan's margin of victory in the election was fifty thousand dollars.