Election Outcomes Quotes

It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.

Voters have demonstrated time and again that candidates who buck the teachers' union are rewarded.

The BJP's decisions are never based on victory and defeat in elections.

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.

In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

Anytime somebody loses a presidential election, there are lots of explanations.

Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.

I have no more campaigns to run... I know because I won both of them.

Because the left, George Bush won two elections, 2000 and 2004. So 2008, we didn't see. It was obviously there. We saw effervescence and this bubbling up of this extreme left-wing cultural revolution, so to speak, but it seems like with the inauguration of [Barack] Obama, outward appearances, it seemed like the country flipped and did a 180 overnight.

I mean this is a revolution in how campaigns work - more money was spent by super PACs than by either myself or John Faso. So what that means is that if you're a voter in this district you are more likely to have heard from a super PAC than from me or my opponent.

If free will exists, why do the tallest candidates with the best hair usually win elections ?

The best thing going for us is Al Gore. I cannot conceive how the American people could elect him. On the other hand, I couldn't conceive how they could elect a Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton - especially Clinton in '96.

Inside the institution (Congress) there's a sense of puzzlement that incumbents have a lock.... The members feel they are targeted of a conspiracy, using slick ad techniques and misinformation, to remove them from office, no matter how hard they have worked.

If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

The establishment of the Republican Party, which I've been watching all my life. They always seem to win. I mean, there was the exception, of course, with Goldwater back in '64, which turned out to be a catastrophe. But it always seems that the Mitt Romneys and the East Coast types always end up winning the fights.

Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.

When all is said and done and the e-book is written about politics and the Internet, it is not going to be about the presidential election. It will be about the smaller elections in aggregate that have a huge effect on people's lives.

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

Politics is gut; commercials are gut.

The fundamental goal of Republicans and Democrats is to get themselves re-elected.

I think all nonpresidential elections are won or lost by motivating your own voters.

I have won elections and I have lost elections.

[The Democrats] can't stop anything. It's why everybody's so confused why they reelected [Nancy] Pelosi.