Sean Hannity Quotes

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

We've got to be willing to lose the primary in order to win the general election.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

The Doppler Effect: When running in a primary, candidate appears farther to the left or right than he or she in fact is, but as candidate nears the general election, candidate's views appear to approach the center.

I've been watching and involved in presidential politics since 1960 when I first voted, and the Republican, the conservative candidate in the primary is always going to lean right and come back to the center for the general - the opposite for the Democrat.

I made it clear that I can run a positive campaign and do it better.

Look at Jeb Bush, $115 million and Jeb actually stated in December 2014 that he was going to win this primary by not winning it. He was going to win it without winning base voters. They have made it clear they want nothing of their base. They're embarrassed of their base.

There was also a sense that if he [Obama] did not win in Iowa, that it was very unlikely that he would be able to come back and win the Democratic nomination and win the general election. It was sort of an all-or-nothing bet. The stakes were that high.

If she Hillary Clinton win just two of the three big battleground states - North Carolina, Florida and Virginia - she will have shut off Trump's path to 270 electoral votes, even if he wins the other toss-up states.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination.

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.

In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take your issues to voters, and you put them out there, and people respond, or they don't.

Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.

It wouldn't do me much good to back somebody that won in Iowa if they can't carry on the campaign elsewhere.

Mitt Romney is a nice guy. But, we know where nice guys finish in politics.

I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

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.

Candidates who went into an election with negatives higher than 30 or 40 points just inevitably lost.... Drive up the opposition's negatives.

The first thing you've got to do in any kind of election campaign is be flexible.

It sounds good to say you're going to campaign everywhere, but ultimately you have to make choices.

Negative politics in a primary campaign produces damaged goods but you've got to do what you've got to do.

If I can win the nomination, there’s no reason I can’t win this election.

Money does not always win elections. Usually it does however.