#presidential

You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#alone #been #dean #decided #good

Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#al #al gore #debates #different #gore

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team. ↗

— John Mahoney

#better job #creating #democratic #democratic party #elections

The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#campaigns #congressional #cost #every #four

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq. ↗

— Dick Morris

#advocating #candidate #gay #gay marriage #iraq

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#bought #by the time #gets #man #material

We are all encouraged that Bush appears, really for the first time in his experience on the stage of presidential politics, relaxed. His comfort is our comfort. ↗

— John Dean

#bush #comfort #encouraged #experience #first

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#because #candidates #conservative #culturally #liberal

I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#death #during #ever #extended #i

The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#being #better #defeat #disillusionment #elections