Balance Quote by Mike Pence

I don't care how much you may think they're funny or how interesting they may sound. If we nominate someone that 40 to 50…

— Marco Rubio

I went to my first national convention in 1976, when my family supported [Ronald] Reagan over [Gerald] Ford, so we've always been Republicans, but…

— Rand Paul

I will have received more votes for a Republican than anyone in the history of the primaries by millions. More than Ronald Reagan, who…

— Donald Trump

I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.

— Todd Akin

To get nominated by the Republican Party you've got to be pretty reactionary, really.

— Randy Newman

I always run ahead of the ticket [compared to Democratic presidential candidates]. But this time there were a lot of people that just voted…

— Collin Peterson

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

Only a fool pokes a mama bear, but that's Merrick Garland for you. The attorney general thought to be such a moderate that 20…

— Miranda Devine

I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, but I will not make that mistake again. The joke is over for Nader. He was funny…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of…

— F. Murray Abraham

There was a time in my life when election year was nothing to me, but in 1912, I joined that great army of Americans…

— Margaret Case Harriman

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system.…

— Michael Beschloss