Tom Perez Quotes

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

To defeat Donald Trump, the Democrats must run a stellar cast of all-stars in their primary.

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.

The best thing the Democrats can do is to get Hillary Clinton elected.

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.

Hillary Clinton, [Democrats] say, leads the popular vote by two million, and a shift of a few votes in a few states would have won the election.

Any attempt to dilute my support for Sen. Obama will not succeed.

I think it would be an extreme poverty indeed if there weren't more than one person willing to compete for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.

Originally, the main purpose of the convention was to determine who the party would have as the presidential nominee and the vice-presidential nominee.

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

The thing that Tea Parties have to understand, you can't govern if you don't get elected.

It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.

I'm from North Carolina, and I stand here humbled, honored, and proud to place in nomination for the office of vice-president of the United States of America, my friend and my senator from the great state of North Carolina: John Edwards.

One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.

The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.

Obviously I'm young and I'm also Hispanic, two important groups in this election. And I'm confident that I can do a good job in articulating why President Obama ought to be the candidate that Americans select for the next four years.

But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going to run for president in Florida, I would be the favorite son from Florida, and that would stop Johnson and Kennedy from dividing up the state.

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

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.

The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.

I could probably win the Presidency if I ran, but I don’t think I could win the nomination.

The tactics and strategy of every Presidential election campaign is most influenced by the previous Presidential election.

Donald Trump defeated not one but two political parties on his way to winning the Presidency.

When you want to fix the country, you want someone who can beat Hillary Clinton.

We have got to defeat Donald Trump, and we have got to elect Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine.