Election Prospects Quotes

Ike is bitten with the presidential bug and is also yellow. He has convinced himself that he did me a favor by getting me out of the really grave risks of being a governor. He will never be president!…

I don't think anybody from the South will be nominated [for President] in my lifetime. If so, I don't think he will be elected.

My mum used to send me cuttings from the local paper about people who'd got married as a kind of 'hint hint'. But then there was one cutting about my home seat's boundary changes, and how it might be good for the Liberal Democrats, and I knew this was an opportunity.

Even before the missteps that I've had, I was never going to run for office. My family is adamantly opposed to it, and frankly, my politics don't necessarily work for the primaries of either of our parties.

We're never gonna have a nice lady run for president.

Surprisingly, though, you know, there are red states in which we are doing very well because the Democrats don't really even try in the red states and they don't visit there. So it's too soon to say. You know, at this point we are building a movement. We are reaching out, especially to millennials.

We thought for the longest time we might have a chance to run the table because we're such nice guys and centrist party, etcetera, but not getting into the debates really sort of foreclosed that option.

Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible.

I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now.

McGovern couldn't carry the South if Rhett Butler were his running mate.

My political consultant said I'm the only client of his that he does not worry about.

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.

How far would [a] truth-telling candidate get? Nowhere fast. Such a candidate is, in fact, all but unimaginable in our political culture.

I think the fact that people are even talking about the prospect of the Tories coming second is less about anything the Tories have done and more about the failures of Labour to set out, in any kind of coherent sense, what it's for anymore.

I think the people of Florida are fed up. I don't think Marco Rubio can - I mean, I may be wrong, but I don't think he can be elected dogcatcher in Florida.

If anyone were to suggest that we should be prepared to burn a woman at the stake in the name of national security, he would be taken to a mental ward. But if someone were to be prepared to burn millions of women in the name of national security, he is highly electable to the highest office of the land.

I have known Evo Morales for many years, since the days of the union movement. From a historical and sociological standpoint, the election of Evo Morales is extraordinary, with great prospects and potential for the Bolivian people.

Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.

Palin seems to have forgotten that her poll ratings have plummeted since the summer of 2011.

I think it's quite unlikely that I'll be the leader of the Green party going into a future election if it's on anything like a four-year timing.

We're also optimistic about the future, but only if we do a few things.And that's a big difference in this campaign between Donald Trump's campaign and mine. And I think that's going to begin to matter a lot more now because there are less people in the race and more time to pay attention to some of that.