Dan Quayle Quotes

It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.

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

The candidate who is successful in defining the election is usually the winner.

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

I won in a primary, so I understand primary fights.

I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.

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.

We had the election won. Debates couldn't help us and might hurt.

People don't vote parties. They vote individuals.

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

Elections are not about solving anything. Elections are about winning.

The best thing the Democrats can do is to get Hillary Clinton elected.

Democrats should have learned in 2016 that what counts in American politics is location, not turnout.

Punditry is like weather forecasting: the winds can shift without warning. I remember when nobody would bet a McDonald's Quarter Pounder that Bill Clinton would win the White House.

I think all nonpresidential elections are won or lost by motivating your own voters.

If we want to defeat Hillary Clinton and have a chance to change the trajectory of our country, we need to unite behind the Republican ticket this November.

When you are in election mode, you are focused only on winning.

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.

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.

It's almost a very rough rule of thumb: when Democrats are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around middle-class fears, Democrats win the election; when Republicans are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around cultural fears, Republicans win the election.

If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

Political parties exist to get bums on seats.

Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.

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.