Martha MacCallum Quotes

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Popular elections are uncertain.

During election time, I work over 21 hours. My day starts around 6 A.M., and I address meetings through the day. Between 10 P.M. and 2 A.M., I meet local leaders, where we discuss local issues and local problems.

I loved campaigning for Obama.

I've been in a lot of elections.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

Practical politics is the politics of the coming election.

Every election is hectic.

In 21st-century America, as in Georgian Britain, elections are raucous, flamboyant, flag-waving, expensive, and sometimes ramshackle things.

We work really hard to get elected.

I'm tired now of the elections.

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

Working people vote!

To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.

The thing that Tea Parties have to understand, you can't govern if you don't get elected.

When you're putting together a campaign for president, like I've been, that entails a lot of time. It's not like I've been at the beach sipping a pina colada.

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

Political elections are not life and death.

The people who run campaigns today have more iron control over the campaign than they did 20 or 30 years ago.

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

[On political campaigns:] Get an elbow, give an elbow.

Any time you put your name on a ballot, there is a risk of election.

You've got to lose a few [elections] before you learn what the American system is all about.

You should be strenuous in seeing as many people as possible every day of every possible class and order, for from the mere numbers of these you can make a guess of the amount of support you will get on the balloting