Martin Schulz Quotes

There are certain elections where policy matters more than others….Personality without a platform will not cut it.

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

I totally rule out any arrangements with the SNP — in the same way I rule out any arrangements with Ukip - because there is no meeting point for me with one party that basically wants to pull our country to bits and another party that wants us to pull out of the EU. I would never recommend to the Liberal Democrats that we help establish a government which is basically on a life support system, where Alex Salmond could pull the plug any time he wants.

At 10 A.M. on the Friday after the election in 2010, David Cameron's team met in his room at the Westminster Bridge Park Plaza Hotel. Cameron was clear that, unable to form a majority government, they had to begin talks with the Lib Dems about forming a coalition. But in a rare example of strategic discord, George Osborne disagreed.

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.

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.

I always think that the party that offers the most hope and ideas for the future is the party that wins.

Parties that win elections should form the government, not parties that lose elections.

I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

When my party won the elections convincingly on February 18th, 2008, we immediately reached out to other parties to form broad-based coalitions of national unity in the National Assembly and in the four provincial assemblies.

People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

To be a party you have to have a national message.

The candidate who is successful in defining the election is usually the winner.

Practical politics is the politics of the coming election.

The election was held today. Besides the two great party tickets, there is a new party which has polled most unexpectedly five or six thousand votes. They call themselves the American party, and are opposed to the extension of suffrage to foreigners; ... with this powerful demonstration of popular opinion in their favor, I should not be surprised if ere long they should swallow up the Whig party. This new movement has occasioned a great defection from both parties.

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

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

In consequence of a division of opinion existing among our fellow-citizens, as to the proper constitution of our political institutions, and of the wisdom and propriety of certain measures which had been adopted by our government, that portion of our citizens who approved and advocated one class of these opinions and measures selected you as their candidate for the Presidency, and their opponents selected me. If you or myself had not been in existence, or for any other cause had not been selected, other persons would have been selected in our places, and thus the contest would have been carried on, and with the same result, except that the party which supported you would have been defeated by a greater majority, as it was known that, but for you, your party would have carried their unpopular measures much further than they did.

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

Rare is the election campaign that truly hinges on a single issue.