Campaign Failure Quotes

Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.

Nobody with the name of Barack Obama will win anything.

If you put everything, your heart and soul into a campaign, it might take you a while to come around to the realization that, you know, another person has won.

There are plenty of examples of very wealthy people who have run for office and failed, certainly in Illinois.

The whole celebrity thing didn't work for Hillary Clinton. She tried that in her campaign and it failed.

Backbiting and second guessing are endemic to losing campaigns.

Barack Obama's busy moving into the White House. Earlier today, John McCain was blowing on his soup.

This election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.

Al Gore has endorsed Howard Dean for president. That's pretty fitting, the guy that didn't beat Bush endorsing the guy who won't beat Bush.

We say there are people who have worked in campaigns who say that they have lost some - and we call those folks operatives, managers, strategists, consultants; and then there are people who work in campaigns and say that they have never lost, and we call them liars.

Here's why most campaigns get data wrong. They treat it as an afterthought and they treat it as sort of a logistic.

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

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

Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs of ordinary people that did more to torpedo his campaign than any goodies Obama might have had to dole out.

A political genius is a man ... who has accidentally been on the winning side in the last campaign and is about to be on the losing side.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.

Obama also allowed Hillary supporters to insert an absurd statement into the platform suggesting that media sexism spurred her loss and that “demeaning portrayals of women ... dampen the dreams of our daughters.” ... It would have been better to put this language in the platform: “A woman who wildly mismanages and bankrupts a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar campaign operation, and then blames sexism in society, will dampen the dreams of our daughters.”

Trump is not just unlike a Republican, he's unlike a presidential candidate. The whole elaborate presidential process is designed to screen out people like Donald Trump. And that process broke down in ways quite unlike anything in the recent experience of the United States.

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

Their failures, both Obama's and Kay Hagan's, are obvious.

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.

Rick Perry dropped out of the presidential race. When asked what went wrong, Perry said, I guess America is not ready to elect a dumb guy from Texas. But in time.

The New York Times and Politico report , as Bush continues to flounder on the campaign trail, backers are placing some of the blame on Right To Rise and its inability to sell their candidate.

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