Rush Limbaugh Quotes

Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

There's a basic law, Klein's second, or third, or fourth law of politics in the TV age, which is warm always beats cold, with the exception of Richard Nixon. The nicer guy usually wins.

And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.

If I worried about pollsters, I wouldn't be president.

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

Ronald Reagan's advisors know that if he goes to sleep for even five minutes during the second debate, he'll be in trouble.

Negative politics in a primary campaign produces damaged goods but you've got to do what you've got to do.

The Republicans always looked bad three years out of four. But the year they look good is election year.

Each of the participants [in a Presidential Debate] has a major objective and a minor one, in addition, of course, to appearing presidential. The major one is to get his messages across even if the questions don’t ask for them. The minor one is to avoid seeming unresponsive. That is why you will see the debaters answer some of the questions quickly, leaving time for what the candidate wants to talk about.

A political genius is a man ... who has accidentally been on the winning side in the last campaign and is about to be on the losing side.

When a party loses a national election to someone such as President Trump, it's time to rethink everything.

Democratic strategists and operatives should not design a strategy based off today's conditions. They should be setting a strategy for where the trajectory of polling is headed.

Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.

Don't fall in love with the map. The map doesn't win elections.

I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.

If 2016 taught us anything, it's that President Trump's political prowess should not be discounted or underestimated.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

I think if Donald Trump skipped out on a debate, for whatever reason he gave, I don't think it would help him at all.

I even believe [Donald Trump] won a little after - after the election rethinking, I think if we'd spent a little more time in Minnesota, we would've won Minnesota.

I mean,[Marco] Rubio, he's having fun. I've got to say I've never seen him enjoy himself out there so much. He's found way to get under his skin. So, he's found way to look like he's somebody that is a force, which has hasn't so far.

Look at Jeb Bush, $115 million and Jeb actually stated in December 2014 that he was going to win this primary by not winning it. He was going to win it without winning base voters. They have made it clear they want nothing of their base. They're embarrassed of their base.

For the Democrats, they're trying to avoid having the [Ben] Sanders- [Hillary] Clinton debate over and over again. But, to some degree, they're sentenced to that debate.

If she Hillary Clinton win just two of the three big battleground states - North Carolina, Florida and Virginia - she will have shut off Trump's path to 270 electoral votes, even if he wins the other toss-up states.