Herbert Hoover Quotes

It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost.

It hurts to lose an election.

I have been defeated for election often enough to know that the majority can be wrong.

Honey, there go 20 million votes, but we’ll get over it.

I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.

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

We lost everything. We even won our own constituency.

Mitt Romney is a nice guy. But, we know where nice guys finish in politics.

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected

We have lost the elections; and it is natural that each of us will believe, and say, it has been because his peculiar views was not made sufficiently prominent.

Romney had his chance. He should have won. He choked.

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.

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 lost my election because of my campaign, not because of what anyone else did.

When I was 33 years old, I ran for United States Congress in New York City. I lost miserably.

I congratulate Secretary [Hillary] Clinton on her victory. But, I think, for us, that is about as bad as it's going to get.

The good news is, the cake is baked. Barack Obama will not be reelected president.

If liberals think they are losing elections because of the conservative bias in the media, they may as well give up right now.

We did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated.

Jennifer Palmieri and Joel Benenson and all these people on Hillary's [Clinton] side just can't come to grips with the fact that they lost.

I didn’t get enough votes.

Nixon would have been better off if I had won

The losing side is comforted, I think, by this idea of magical gurus [masterminding the opponent’s campaign], because it’s less disconcerting than the fact that people just didn’t like them very much.