Electoral Risk Quotes

But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?

You really can't go back to the Senate after running for President .... The danger of running for the Presidency is that if you don't make it—and that's the case for almost everyone who tries—then you are considered a failure.

If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.

We may blunder on in spite of repeated miscalculations of the popular will

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

There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.

The Republican high command thinks that Henry Wallace will take so many votes away from the Democrats, and so little from the Republicans, that it does not matter what the Republican Party does. Victory will be theirs, they assure themselves. When any political party gets this feeling, it is time for that party to beware.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Democratic candidates who run from President Obama in red states where he is unpopular are making a big mistake. Their holding Obama at arm's length deprives voters of a clear choice at the ballot box.

If Labour ends up on the scrapheap of history, it will do so because of its own foolishness and self-inflicted wounds. What party in its right mind would allow a combination of far-left enemies, militant trade unions and first-time supporters to decide its fate?