General Elections Quotes

• I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.

  Brian Lamb

  Party, Election, Vote

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• Winning Democratic primaries is not a qualification or a sign of who can win the general election. If it were, every nominee would win because every nominee wins Democratic primaries.

  Mark Penn

  Winning, Election, Democratic

  "Clinton camp begins 11th hour effort" by David Paul Kuhn, www.politico.com. February 16, 2008.

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• Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

  C. S. Lewis

  Party, Taken, Office

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• Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.

  Ken Livingstone

  Election, Accurate, Polling

  "Ken Livingstone: 'This isn't a race to elect a chat-show host'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.

  Pat Robertson

  Party, Thinking, Winning

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• I shall not rest until, once again, the destinies of our people and our party are joined together again in victory at the next general election Labour in its rightful place in government again.

  Tony Blair

  Party, Destiny, Government

  "Blair sets sights on Downing Street". The Times, July 22, 1994.

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• How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me.

  Paul Weyrich

  Gun, Issues, Abortion

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• As far as party primaries are concerned, both Republican - and Democratic - Party primaries are dominated by the most zealous voters, whose views may not reflect the views of most members of
  their own respective parties, much less the views of those who are going to vote in the November general election.

  Thomas Sowell

  Party, Views, Zealous

  "Bipartisan Primary Blues". www.nationalreview.com. March 25, 2008.

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• I think Donald Trump is a pragmatic sort of populist and who tell people anything in any moment that he wants them to hear, if he thinks that it`s going to be to his advantage, that everything is going to reset in the general election, assuming that he is the nominee, and I think it will be interesting to watch how many people feel betrayed or conned with the game he played with the Republican Party at this point.

  Ben Domenech

  Party, Thinking, Games

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• If you're running to be president of the United States, you can't just tell people you're going to make America great again. I think you need to begin to explain exactly how you're going to do it policy-wise. We're not going to win a general election with a candidate that refuses to detail policy.

  Marco Rubio

  Wise, Running, Winning

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• There was also a sense that if he [Obama] did not win in Iowa, that it was very unlikely that he would be able to come back and win the Democratic nomination and win the general election. It was sort of an all-or-nothing bet. The stakes were that high.

  Josh Earnest

  Winning, Iowa, Would Be

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• If I had to guess what the new Etch-A-Sketch picture is going to be like, it's going to be considerably less to the right. Romney has backed himself into a couple of corners that I don't think will serve him well in the general election, the main one being very harsh stands on immigration, which I think are not only short-sighted but to my mind immoral.

  Anna Quindlen

  Couple, Thinking, Mind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We got the clearest picture of Donald Trump`s weaknesses and liabilities in a general election. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz finally gave up on trying to convince Republican primary voters that Trump is not a real conservative, attacks that have failed to resonate.

  Chris Hayes

  Real, Trying, Voters

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There is no question that I would be the better president. But as for the campaign, are Americans ready for a general election in which both major party candidates are ADD? Quite frankly, it could provide an opening for a third party candidate, maybe someone backed by the evil Koch brothers.

  Joe Biden

  Brother, Party, Evil

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2015.

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• I always believed that WikiLeaks as a concept would perform a global role, and to some degree it was clear that it was doing that as far back as 2007 when it changed the result of the Kenyan general election.

  Julian Assange

  Degrees, Wikileaks, Roles

  "Julian Assange answers your questions". Q&A, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2010.

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• If you look at polls, Hillary Clinton is considered the toughest in a field of men. That`s no small victory for her going towards a general election.

  Joe Conason

  Men, Victory, Looks

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Donald Trump talks about how he's not going to be controlled by the moneyed interests. Do people understand that he's not giving money to his campaign, he's loaning it because he expects to get money back from those same big donors he decries right now? He's planning on running a general election based upon raising money from those very people.

  Mitt Romney

  Running, Giving Money, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We've got to be willing to lose the primary in order to win the general election.

  Jeb Bush

  Winning, Order, Election

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• In seats where perhaps we don't expect to win at the next general election, the new infrastructure gives us a chance to win local council seats and to build a campaigning base which could help us to win in the future.

  Theresa May

  Winning, Giving, Next

  "Theresa May answers your questions". ConservativeHome Interview, conservativehome.blogs.com. May 18, 2007.

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• The Conservative Party isn't electing a leader in opposition after losing a general election who can build up over five years and gain experience. We're electing somebody who's going to be our prime minister in two months' time, and that's why it's very important we have somebody with strong experience, who's good at working with the international community and can hit the ground running.

  Chris Grayling

  Running, Strong, Party

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Our [Republicans'] object is to avoid having stupid candidates who can't win general elections, who are undisciplined, can't raise money, aren't putting together the support necessary to win a general election campaign, because this money is too difficult to raise to be spending it on behalf of candidates who have little chance of winning in a general election.

  Karl Rove

  Stupid, Winning, Support

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The general election's taking place today in Iraq, so I guess that means we're one step closer to being there for another 10 years.

  David Letterman

  Mean, Years, Iraq

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• He [Donald Trump] said in the debate - he said, gosh, I'm being audited for two years. Then he said three years. Then he said maybe five years. Listen, if there's a problem in his taxes, the voters have a right to know, because come September, October, the general election, folks in the media are going to make a heyday about any problems in his taxes.

  Ted Cruz

  Media, Years, Two

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 28, 2016.

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• What I'm concerned about is the views of many Democrats who know their states, who know how hard it is to win a general election. And it also will push whoever the nominee is into the spotlight. I've been vetted. There's hardly anything you don't know about me. And I think it's fair to say that whoever is in that position, Senator Bernie Sanders or anyone else who might have run, will face the most withering onslaught.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Thinking, Winning

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• Is this so-called [Republican Party] hate wing that is so angry at all the things that have - all the changes that have happened in America, this is what they respond to.And I think it`s dangerous for the country, I also think it`s going to be incredibly unsuccessful in the general election.

  Howard Dean

  Country, Hate, Party

  The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, www.msnbc.com. December 23, 2015.

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