Abraham Lincoln Quotes

It hurts to lose an election.

Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.

Losing an election is very difficult. I've lost an election myself, and it was very difficult.

I didn't have the base I needed to win the election.

We lost everything. We even won our own constituency.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him, he is a statesman.

I have been defeated for election often enough to know that the majority can be wrong.

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..

Freed from the burden of executive branch responsibility after the 2008 [presidential] defeat, Republicans began to lose touch with the real world of foreign policy.

Honey, there go 20 million votes, but we’ll get over it.

When you're losing, crap happens.

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

Losing a Super Bowl destroys all the good things that happened to get you there.

I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A.

Winning is something you've dreamed about and hoped for, so that when you get there it's no big deal. But if you lose, you're gutted, and the gutted sense just goes on, and I know what that's like, because I've been having that gutted feeling since 1979.

In 2006 it was a horrible election year, and, you know, I lost. But I lost because I continued to be a constant conservative, and the last six years I was someone who was a national figure in the sense that I was the third ranking Republican in leadership and I had just run President Bush's campaign in Pennsylvania.

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

The politics of exclusion is the politics of defeat.

The Democratic Party eats its young before the election, and then they weep and wail when they lose.

That is simple my friend. Because politics is more complicated than physics.

…it was far better to be known as an ex-secretary than an ex-defeated candidate for governor.

[Thomas] Dewey's view was that if he made no mistakes he would win So we sat around making sure he would make no mistakes. And I think we succeeded, but in fact that isn't the way it went. [Dewey lost]

There’s nothing more humbling than losing a few elections.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. And if the cliches continue to ring true when the party governs, then that party and those cliches can change history.

It’s very hard for any one person to embrace every single aspect of any one party.