Maryon Pearson Quotes

It hurts to lose an election.

We have lost the elections; and it is natural that each of us will believe, and say, it has been because his peculiar views was not made sufficiently prominent.

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

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

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

Romney had his chance. He should have won. He choked.

When Chelsea was 9 months old, I was defeated for reelection in the Reagan landslide. And I became overnight, I think, the youngest former governor in the history of the country. We only had two-year terms back then.

You can see, even the best players, they can lose in the first round.

You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side.

In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.

The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.

The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.

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.

It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost.

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

Senator and Mrs. Birch Bayh have slashed the price of their Potomac [MD] home to way below market. They haven't been so beaten down since Dan Quayle did it to 'em in 1980.

I didn’t get enough votes.

Nixon would have been better off if I had won

It’s a graveyard for politics. I see this as the end of my political future

John McCain has not been president of the United States. He ran. He ran a spirited campaign. We lost. I hated to see us lose, but there were a lot of things working against us.

Any time a party has lost three consecutive elections, it becomes a bit more willing to explore the notion of principled compromise so it's able to pursue some of its objectives.

There's no question that history will record that I took a helluva shellacking.