Campaigns Quote by Barack Obama

I recognize primaries are difficult things. We had a field of outstanding candidates. And primaries get a little bit rough. And it takes some…

— Mike Pence

If you look at why do we end up with the nominees that we get often? It's because you have only a very small…

— Frank Bruni

There are not very many people who go out and vote in primaries. So to get elected in a particular district, you have to…

— Diana Taylor

I think because I really didn't have a good strategy for my campaign. I didn't plan it the right way. ... As a candidate…

— Hillary Clinton

Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.

— Jonathan Raban

The point is that you see candidates running in these different kinds of contests. A primary shows you something that's different from a state…

— Michael Beschloss

I think it is to the advantage of my state to have the opportunity to come to meetings occasionally and to vote in person,…

— Mitch McConnell

You don't feel you have the same voice in a presidential election if you live in a solid blue or a solid red state.…

— Frank Bruni

I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held.

— Judy Woodruff

There is a reality to the primary process, and you don't win primaries by being ahead in national polls. You win them by winning…

— Rudy Giuliani

Primaries are the place where you see whose message is connecting with the largest number of people.

— Mitt Romney

We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born.…

— Jim Cooper