Political Defeat Quotes

We have lost the elections; and it is natural that each of us will believe, and say, it has been because his peculiar views was not made sufficiently prominent.

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

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

I didn’t get enough votes.

Honey, there go 20 million votes, but we’ll get over it.

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

Michigan is a state we should have won in 2016, and we didn't, and I want to understand why.

Nobody with the name of Barack Obama will win anything.

After my defeat I no longer existed for Hitler. My name simply disappeared from the newspapers.

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

The Tory party must learn from its own history that when we fight each other, you can guarantee to lose.

In 2010, I ran for Congress in a Democratic primary against someone who had been there for 18 years. 'The Daily News' endorsed me. I was in 'The New York Times' above the fold. CNBC called this one of the hottest races in the country. On election day, votes for me never went past 19%. I lost.

A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.

Defeating Hillary Clinton in a campaign unlike anything we've seen in our lifetimes.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

The man of public life has always at command a sure resource against this danger [losing political battles],—that is, retirement.

I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.

It’s a graveyard for politics. I see this as the end of my political future

Trump is president of the United States. We can't blame our voters. We clearly did something terribly wrong.

I've accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job.

We cannot meet 'em [Democrates] halfway. We can't cross the aisle. These people, I'm talking about the left wherever you find them, the Democrats, they have to be defeated.

Trump doesn't know it yet, but he will become one of the guys that he hates very soon. Soon he will be a loser.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.

In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.

Republican Scott Brown lost his bid for Senate in New Hampshire last night, two years after he was voted out as Senator in Massachusetts. When asked what he was planning to do next, he said, 'Are they still looking for a mayor in Toronto?'