Elizabeth Warren Quotes

When you're running for president you have to take some risks and you've got to show people something fresh and you've got to stay interesting.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

Politics hasn't changed, but I've changed.

Voters don't have to love him, Romney advisers say, but they will respect him.

It's hard running for office when people can't say your name.

Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?

I was approached by friends who encouraged me to run for an open seat - attorney general of Michigan. It was a big risk.

I gave Mitt Romney some donations for his campaign because he was a friend, and friendship came first. I've always been a Democrat, and I've had different views than Mitt Romney. I'm not Mitt Romney, and I think people will realize that when they meet me out there.

I don't think running for office is anything I'm prepared for or could even prepare myself for.

For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.

My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.

It's a very tough thing to run for office, but it's also the way the American people get to know you.

I could not lose [his gubernatorial race] unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.

[A prospective political candidate] should have a pleasing name, easy to pronounce and spell, and one suggesting statesmanship and Americanism, unless it is a name popular to nationalities and races among the electorate in his particular area.

If you are going to run for national office, you'd better understand that optimism is something Americans expect.

Nixon’s wife was featured at the nominating convention. They were trying to give Nixon a little bit of humanity which was a very difficult thing to do.

In politics, you have a one-day sale. You have every customer allowed in the store for one or two minutes on that day, and you have to sell a majority or plurality of the market or you are out of business.

'Three Billboards,' which is not based on a true story but does have some reality flavoring, must appear worthy of elected office in some way. This was, at first, the illusion presented by the people running the campaigns and, in turn, over the years, has become the custom for lots of us.

In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.

A cardinal rule of politics is that if an issue has the potential to cause problems for a candidate, it is best to deal with it well before the election so the dust has time to settle.

I'm not a really super-political type of person, and that might change as I get older.

The truth is that a campaign defines how the electorate will see their president - and this all the more true when shaping the president's image in the eyes of the largest constituency that will actually not vote for them: the international community.

Politics, as a profession, is not about making the right political decision. It's about making the right decision and then managing the political consequences.

When I was 27, having never run for office before, I decided to run for Congress.

In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine both what he is, and what others believe him to be.