Hamilton Jordan Quotes

If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.

You can’t win a Presidential election in this country with just a base.

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.

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

Trump is a juggernaut that is difficult to unravel at this point, but I think Marco Rubio is the right one to do it. I think he can win Arkansas, and he can win in November.

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

The only way to win the White House, in my view, is to become a nominee of either the Republican or the Democrat Party, and simply running to be a spoiler would not give the American people, I think, the chance to express their own views about Mr. Trump or about Secretary Clinton.

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

The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

In some future America, there could be a plausible Michael Bloomberg path to the Democratic nomination. I would love to read a column by a smart person actually attempting to persuade me of this, using evidence.

It was a presidential election year, and as a member of a consortium of Ivy League radio stations, we participated in 'network' coverage of election night.

Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe.

The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.

In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

I could have beat Obama.

When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around.

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

It's always valuable for someone running for president... to have as much bipartisan support as possible.

I don't think Obama will get re-elected.

In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.

President George W. Bush won reelection in 2004 largely because he was seen as comfortable in his own skin, while rival John Kerry was viewed as a flip-flopping opportunist.

It wouldn't do me much good to back somebody that won in Iowa if they can't carry on the campaign elsewhere.