Political Surprises Quotes

One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.

Mitch McConnell further said he was kind of surprised that a rich guy like Donald Trump could be elected! Yeah, it's bad enough that the Democrats believe their own media, the Drive-By Media.

Indian politics has a way of taking a curious turn and surprising the wisest of pundits.

The political establishment, they don't know what to do about Trump because they said, oh, the immigration thing will kill him. First, they said he'll never run, and then he ran. Then they said he'll never file his financial disclosures. He filed and on time. Then they said, he's going to fall flat on his face.

I honestly thought we wouldn't hold the U.S. Senate. I thought we'd come up short and I didn't think President Donald Trump had a chance of winning. Given my expectations, doubly exciting because I thought we'd come up short on the Senate. We had a lot of exposure. That was really something. But it never occurred to me that he might be able to win as well.

You just never know. Crazy things happen in elections.

Weird things happen when strange men run for election. See Donald Trump for details.

Gordon Brown doesn't often spring surprises. He's usually far too cautious to deliver the unexpected.

Nixon was always willing to be bipartisan, so there are a lot of surprises in the man.

The polls told us that Hillary Clinton was going to win, and she didn't. I wasn't fooled by the polls.

Republicans can nominate bad Justices, too. Earl Warren, William Brennan, Harry Blackmun, David Souter... the list goes on.

I find politics in almost every country I go to be incredibly different and incredibly similar and I'm never surprised by anything.

We had Jesse Ventura in Minnesota win the governorship, nobody thought he was going to win. I'm telling you, stranger things have happened.