George W. Romney Quotes

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

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

I have never lost an election yet. I am a winner. Let's just say that.

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

Political parties exist to get bums on seats.

I want to win and I want to be in office.

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

You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies.

President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election.

Politics isn't just about doing the right thing. It's also about winning.

There is ample evidence that participation in an electoral process forces any party, regardless of ideology, to moderate its position if it wants to attract voters in large numbers.

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

[Political] Victory is all that matters.

The only test of electability is getting elected.

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.

A pragmatist won't let ideology get in the way of what's got to be done to get elected.

[Ideological] Purity is fine but it doesn’t win elections and is not a governing strategy. Compromise is required.

It’s a good thing in politics that candidates run against each other; otherwise no one would win.

Republicans can win without capitulating to multiculturalism.

In order to govern, you have to win.

I don't look at polls. It's about results. And every single time that people have had an opportunity to vote for me, we've been on top.

I would love to be a mentor to many people who want to go into the political arena, teach them the art of winning elections.

Politics should be done by earning love and affection and by winning the hearts.

We work long hours during elections.