Difficult Quote by 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

Typically, the view of party leaders is that primaries are best avoided. Better to coalesce around a consensus candidate early, help that candidate amass…

— Steve Kornacki

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

What does seem to matter for winning a primary is when candidates get into the race compared with their competitors.

— Harry Enten

As far as party primaries are concerned, both Republican - and Democratic - Party primaries are dominated by the most zealous voters, whose views…

— Thomas Sowell

The RNC, per our bylaws, cannot engage in primaries. That is not our role. We actually have a rule that prohibits us from picking…

— Ronna McDaniel

I think a primary always makes the other candidate a better candidate because you're battle-tested and you have to think in ways that other…

— Nancy Pelosi

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

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

— Pierre Salinger

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

The good thing about having a Republican primary is that the voters will decide our nominee - unlike the Democrats.

— Carlos Lopez-Cantera

I don't really think it's appropriate for me to be picking and choosing in the primaries. It's pretty dumb politics for a Republican to…

— John Cornyn