Hillary Clinton Quotes

I've been in a lot of elections.

Presidential politics is not like a golf tournament. There’s no prize for second place.

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

I don't think that winning the presidency of the United States is a matter of a single issue.

The outcome of an election depends on the candidate, not the people on the sidelines [advisors, handlers, etc.]

I've been through so many different political races.

You know I think the president has to really focus on getting elected to a second term in 2012. And I need to focus on making sure I'm accountable to the people of Missouri.

The hardest thing about a presidential election is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Any time you put your name on a ballot, there is a risk of election.

Compared to this [the transition] the election was easy.

The last I checked, this is an election, and in an election we play politics.

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.

Senators, in the end, must be elected.

Sometimes in politics, you get a wallop in the electoral process.

When you are in election mode, you are focused only on winning.

I'm tired now of the elections.

If elected, I will win.

Any time you have a competitive situation like politics is, there are winners, and there are people who don't win, and their supporters can sometimes be very emotional.

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

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take your issues to voters, and you put them out there, and people respond, or they don't.

During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.

I'm not going to run for political office.

I’ve won the election.

Every election is a matter of definition.