Election Risk Quotes

I think he could win, absolutely. I think he could win because there's Trump supporters out there who aren't even revealing themselves as such. For me, that's a scary prospect because I think he'd be a disastrous president.

I believe Jeremy Corbyn getting his hands on power is a risk we cannot afford to take.

Foreign policy questions bring trouble to senators and congressmen—rarely benefit.

Any time you put your name on a ballot, there is a risk of election.

I'm convinced Mr. Reagan would never be elected- I don't think his views are held by a majority of the American people...it's the Republican party that's going to be committing suicide by nominating candidates of that genre.

I am thoroughly convinced that he is a lawless individual bent on building up a reputation for himself as a great builder, even at the expense of the President and the country. I think he is the greatest threat today to the president's reelection.

I was approached by friends who encouraged me to run for an open seat - attorney general of Michigan. It was a big risk.

The Republican senators are filibustering themselves out of their seats.

If you're in a Republican district that is leery of President [Donald] Trump,then, you might feel a little bit more exposed.Of course, if you're in a swing district, then this town hall tension has to worry you which is why we haven't seen many Republicans from swing districts actually hold these kinds of town halls.

Mail-in voting is a proven and significant threat to election integrity.

You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.

I think that for the United States, Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I'm not so sure about Donald Trump.

I think that Donald Trump is the most dangerous politician I’be ever encountered, and I did a campaign against a guy in the Congo who got accused of war crimes in the Hague. If that guy would have won, he wouldn’t have had nuclear weapons.

The establishment Republicans are beginning to say on the record what they had been whispering about in private for months: that Donald Trump at the top of the ticket could mean an electoral wipeout down the ballot.

Donald Trump is the most dangerous person to run for president in the modern history of America.

There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.

A Rick Santorum presidency would be very, very dangerous for America.

I can’t accept it. It may cost me the election, but I’m still not going to sign it.

We can’t afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result. And that’s a risk we can’t take.

It is about something personal and specific, because when the John McCain campaign in 2008 decided to elevate Sarah Palin from total obscurity to make her his vice presidential running mate, they knew they were making a big strategic gamble.They knew they were taking a big risk and it turned out in the end to be a bad choice. It hurt John McCain's chances.

I'll tell you from my heart, looking at their party further and further to the left, to paraphrase the director of the FBI: I think it would be extremely careless to elect Hillary Clinton.