Expectations Quote by Steve Kornacki

Numerous candidates lose their first White House race and try again four years later - but all of them do so after running surprisingly…

— Steve Kornacki

In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon Johnson did…

— Juan Williams

Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is…

— George Stephanopoulos

That is why every president since the Great Depression who came before the American people asking for a second term could look back at…

— Mitt Romney

Running for president must be like having babies. You have to forget what it was like the last time before you want to do…

— Phil Gramm

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

— Nate Silver

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 don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

— George McGovern

The second [presidential] term changes, and I think that John F. Kennedy certainly ran on that and he knew that second term would give…

— Oliver Stone

I never thought that Trump was going to run for president, but I was very firmly on record, including in the book that I…

— Ann Coulter

Presidents fall into second-term slumps for different reasons.

— Michael Beschloss

I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bill Clinton. There was always a…

— Dee Dee Myers