Quotes about Political Setback

George W. Bush

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

Bush took the job and was the only CIA director to have a good political career afterwards, becoming Vice President and then President.

Carmen Yulín Cruz

I wanted to be mayor, but my party didn't want me. I was perhaps too liberal.

Abraham Lincoln

I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

Conan O'Brien

Rick Perry dropped out of the presidential race. When asked what went wrong, Perry said, I guess America is not ready to elect a dumb guy from Texas. But in time.

Maryon Pearson

We lost everything. We even won our own constituency.

Enda Kenny

Sometimes in politics, you get a wallop in the electoral process.

Craig Ferguson

Clay Aiken ran for Congress in North Carolina. But he didn't make it. Clay Aiken is famous for coming in second in a TV popularity contest that most people got fed up with years ago. He also lost on 'American Idol.'

Bill Maher

Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage.

George McGovern

Nixon would have been better off if I had won

Richard M. Nixon had beaten McGovern and then disgraced himself in the Watergate Scandal. Had Nixon lost, he would have been considered a leading statesman of his time, and not died in disgrace and remembered by history as the a dishonest failure.

Bill Clinton

When Chelsea was 9 months old, I was defeated for reelection in the Reagan landslide. And I became overnight, I think, the youngest former governor in the history of the country. We only had two-year terms back then.

Political Setback Quotes