Glenn Carberry Quotes

Elections are not about solving anything. Elections are about winning.

I've been a candidate for office at least eight times. A couple times for mayor, state representative, city council.

I won in a primary, so I understand primary fights.

I am running for re-election no matter who runs.

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.

In politics, you have a one-day sale. You have every customer allowed in the store for one or two minutes on that day, and you have to sell a majority or plurality of the market or you are out of business.

Anything can happen when people run for office.

I'm very confident about my ability to earn votes in every neighborhood.

In my primary, I only won by 23 votes in that one, so every vote really does count, and I want to make sure I get as many as I possibly can.

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.

Working people vote!

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.

In 2004, I ran for Congress and lost. In 2006, I ran again and won - defeating Richard Pombo, a seven-term Republican incumbent.

I'm unelectable in the District of Columbia.

To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

Can we pray for the re-election of George Bush?

I've been in a lot of elections.

In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

I ran for my first office at 25 against an incumbent city councilman. I took 55% of the vote and became the youngest councilman in the area at the time.

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Political elections are not life and death.