Quotes About Winning Elections

#1. Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

Danny Strong

#2. The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

Jesse Helms

#3. If Democrats want to start winning elections in this country, they're going to have to start connecting with voters as well as I connect with my fans.

Zach Braff

#4. We don't believe that winning elections and winning any amount of votes will win freedom in Ireland. At the end of the day, it will be the cutting edge of the IRA which will bring freedom.

Martin McGuinness

#5. Tony Blair was a good politician but not a good Prime Minister, and that's what we don't want to be. We don't want to be just people who are good at winning elections: we want to be good at governing. I think we benefit from having seen the mistakes that we think Tony Blair made in 1997.

George Osborne

#6. Conservatives talk constantly about the centrality of morality and the family in their politics, while liberals did not talk about these things until conservatives started winning elections by doing so.

George Lakoff

#7. If I take donations from Big Corporates to fund our election campaign, I'll be accountable to them and would have to do what they tell me to do after winning elections. But if I take donations from common people to fund our Election Campaign, after winning, I'll be accountable to them

Arvind Kejriwal

#8. When our eyes fall from God to humanity, social ills replace sin, horizontal problems replace the fundamental vertical problem between us and God, winning elections eclipses winning souls.

Mark Dever

#9. Most politicians believe in just one thing - winning elections. They'll say anything to get in office and stay there.

Harry Browne

#10. If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it's clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, is a net positive for winning elections, as well as the right thing to do.

Ken Mehlman

#11. [O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections.

Bruce Fein

#12. The bloggers and online donors represent an important resource for the party, but they are not representative of the majority you need to win elections,

Steve Elmendorf

#13. The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

Paul Krugman

#14. Elections have consequences. And I fundamentally believe - this is my personal opinion, I know it's a slightly partisan thing to say - to really do what we think needs to be done, we're going to have to win some elections.

Paul Ryan

#15. There's going to be a lot of people that don't like you, and there's nothing you can do about it. Instead of trying to win them over one by one, you need to do things that are getting huge swaths of votes [in the elections].

Michael Schur

#16. John Prescott has made the government look greedy and ridiculous. Labour is seen as the corrupt party. The government has been fulfilling the old rule that oppositions do not win elections, governments lose them.

William Rees-Mogg

#17. We may like to think politics is a battle of ideas and that the best idea wins out. But that's not true in most elections. Most elections are about the worst ideas losing, not the best ideas winning.

Chuck Todd

#18. Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors ... History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the reverse.

Rudy Giuliani

#19. Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

Dick Morris

#20. Mandates are not objective realities but subjective interpretations of elections sold successfully by the winning candidate or party.

Thomas E. Mann

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

Bill James

#22. The 2014 elections are not about winning or losing, but of ensuring a bright future for India. It is about sowing the seeds for a 'Bhavya' and a 'Divya Bharat'.

Narendra Modi

#23. The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.

Leonid Brezhnev

#24. We have made too much of one or two people, and we think that they can win or lose elections for us. Don't be depressed if one particular person transgresses. It doesn't lose an election unless the Party loses faith in itself.

Margaret Thatcher

#25. In the United States 95% of the people who win elections have the most money. That's it. So, money is a big part of elections. But that happens all the time.

George Clooney

#26. I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good hands and that it should win elections.

Maurice Cowling

#27. Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern.

Dick Morris

#28. It's kind of hard to win most elections on anti-family, immorality, and Satan-worship.

Ed Helms

#29. The only way liberals win national elections is by pretending they're not liberals.

Rush Limbaugh

#30. General Wesley Clark commented on Gore endorsing Howard Dean. He said endorsements don't win elections. Hey, in this country, votes don't even win elections.

Jay Leno

#31. We conservatives can win the ideological battles on a level playing field. Our ideas are better. Given fair elections based on contributions from regular voters, instead of $100,000 checks from business-as-usual special interests, we will prevail.

John McCain

#32. There is great potential and deep fragility [in Malaysia] that can be used by any group that stresses on religion, pushing towards Islam, rejecting people and alienating migrants - anything can be used to win the next elections. So these are the signs of fragility that is very much there.

Tariq Ramadan

#33. If free will exists, why do the tallest candidates with the best hair usually win elections ?

Scott Adams

#34. In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.

John F. Kerry