Jeff Merkley Quotes

Listen, we're going to have to fight for every vote.

Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates - they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can't blame them for that.

In an election campaign, sleep is for the weak.

I ran for ninth grade class president. Came in a close second.

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

Review" is a great word in politics. It will last you almost an entire election cycle if you play it right.

The election campaign is no time to get involved in very, very serious issues.

When you fight -- fight to win

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

We're going to fight for every vote in every state. We're going to make a real difference in people's lives.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

God forbid Donald Trump gets elected president; think about how many people are going to get f**ked over or how much harder we're going to have to fight for equality.

But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.

We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

So my concern is that - what the campaign has to do is to pull those folks [negative to Donald Trump] out and make sure that they actually get to the ballot.

Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over.

It's the same thing he said a few months ago when he refrained from bringing up Bill's [Clinton] affairs and all the women. Even though Hillary [Clinton] was blasting him for being a sexist and so forth, [Donald] Trump refrained from bringing up Bill.

I watched the way Hillary Clinton talk now about how lovely everything is and how wonderful she is. It doesn't work that way. She was after him, she was trying to - she even sent out or her campaign sent out pictures of him in a certain garb, very famous pictures. I don't think she can deny that.

We’ll go.” Her voice is surprisingly deep and forceful. Set in her sunken, shipwreck face, her eyes burn like two smoldering coals. “We’ll fight.

When you got a guy that has purpose, now your in a dog fight.

I just look back on my season [2004] as a year where I've had to prove myself. I've had to fight all the way through to the end.

It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game.

Citizens, you will elect me - I will be your leader.

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.