Reshma Saujani Quotes

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

What would Alex Rose do to us in the next election, Jackie?

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.

I'm unelectable in the District of Columbia.

I am running for re-election no matter who runs.

By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year.

I didn’t think that I would ever get elected. After all, you don’t vote for somebody who is attacking Santa Claus.

It was a good election, a good campaign, and a good friend won.

I could never be elected.

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.

I see The Rock running in 2020 and being a two-term president. I think he would be great, and I'm joking when I say I think Stephanie McMahon wouldn't be a fine president of the United States. I think she's got the leadership qualities. I see those two as potential candidates, and I see Kane as a congressional leader.

I haven't lost an election since middle school.

I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

They're saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger.

In 2004, I ran for Congress and lost. In 2006, I ran again and won - defeating Richard Pombo, a seven-term Republican incumbent.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

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.

In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.

Smilin' for the Presidency

The candidate who is successful in defining the election is usually the winner.

I certainly recognize that there will only be 10 or 12 challengers [for congressional seats] in the whole country who win, but my job is to be one of them.

A congressman serves a two year term. As soon as he gets elected, he has to start attending fund raisers.

To be elected to public office requires no qualifications.

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