Sushma Swaraj Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Elections are not about solving anything. Elections are about winning.

I think that winning the White House is about more than just entertaining a large audience.

Don't fall in love with the map. The map doesn't win elections.

We're running in a primary election. What do you do? You go out and seek support. When you're getting support, that's good. When you're not getting support, that's bad.

Political parties exist to get bums on seats.

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

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

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

As I get close to my election, I want to spend more time in my district and focus on my reelection.

Smilin' for the Presidency

As important as issues are, as important as money is ..., you've got to have good candidates.

I hear you're losing Ohio, but we're doing fine in Pennsylvania.

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

You can’t win a Presidential election in this country with just a base.

Carly Fiorina has campaigned hard in New Hampshire to earn support from voters.

I have won elections and I have lost elections.

Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning.

We don't plan on winning in August - we plan on winning in November.

Sometimes in politics, you get a wallop in the electoral process.

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

If elected, I will win.