Political Recovery Quotes

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Being a party chair, you really have a chance to make a difference. but what the Democrats have to do is recognize and accept the fact that they're at their lowest point [in 2017] since 1928 in the United States House of Representatives and their lowest point since 1925 in states.

Out long national nightmare is over. Our constitution works.

When thinking about the fall of any dictatorship, one should have no illusions that the whole system comes to an end like a bad dream… A dictatorship leaves behind itself an empty fields on which the tree of thought won’t grow quickly. It is not always the best people who emerge from hiding.

But we should not lose sight of how far we are coming and what a big hole we were left by George W. Bush.

The Government are defeated by thirty votes and then the Prime Minister rises in his place, utterly unabashed, the greatest living master of falling without hurting himself, and airily assures us that nothing has happened!

The Democratic political juggernaut that emerged from the Depression and the New Deal meant that Republicans had to scramble to figure out a way to recover their former dominance.

For Democrats who are feeling completely discouraged, I've been trying to remind them, everybody remembers my Boston speech in 2004. They may not remember me showing up here in 2005 when John Kerry had lost a close election, Tom Daschle, the leader of the Senate, had been beaten in an upset. Ken Salazar and I were the only two Democrats that won nationally. Republicans controlled the Senate and the House, and two years later, Democrats were winning back Congress, and four years later I was President of the United States.

Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.

When Republicans are down, in disarray, feeling blue, they turn to a tried-and-true elixir, sort of a Doctor Feelgood medicine for them. It's called tax cuts.

Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up.

What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.

Being a recovering politician is a 12 step process.

For Hillary Clinton, Iowa was a tough state for her in 2008, and she's put a lot of effort into fixing those mistakes.

I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.

We can dig ourselves out of the ditch that the progressives and Obama-ites have driven us into.

Whatever the reality is the perception is that Marco Rubio went to Washington and threw in with the, quote/unquote, "establishment". He cannot - he cannot recover from that. Has not been able to recover from that.

Without a clear diagnosis of why the candidate or party failed, there can be no clear consensus about how to move forward.

That just gives sort of the democracy an opportunity to test ideas, for those who lost to catch their breath, regain energy, re-energize themselves and then get back in the arena, and then we'll make some more progress in the future.

To regain our political footing, we must prove to moderates that Democrats can make tough choices.