Pete du Pont Quotes

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

The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

Scott Brown may be the last Republican to win a statewide fight in Massachusetts for a very long time. He caught the machine flat-footed in January 2010 when he out-hustled Martha Coakley and stole the Senate seat Ted Kennedy held all those years. And since then, the Democrats haven't lost a single statewide fight.

Let me say this as your incoming chair of the Democratic national committee: I promise you, my friends, I commit to all Americans, that we will have a party that you can be proud of. We will elect Democrats up and down the ballot.

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

The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.

It's almost a very rough rule of thumb: when Democrats are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around middle-class fears, Democrats win the election; when Republicans are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around cultural fears, Republicans win the election.

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

Have we come to the point where the Democratic Party needs a Republican President?

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

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

The Democratic support against Barker [72 to 25] was so strong that they didn't even need us Republicans.

Labour's support in Scotland depends on their ability to be electable. If they are divided and unelectable, what's the point?

The Democratic chairman doesn't need to be a household name. Most people didn't know who Ron Brown was when he was chairman of the Democratic Party, but he put the party in a position where Bill Clinton could come in and he had a solid base to run from.

Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, if your standard-bearer for the presidency is not doing well, it's gonna reflect on the down-ballot.

In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.

I had this notion that I could convince people who were skeptical of national Democrats to vote for me because I could bring home the bacon, or because I could find some personal pitch to them.

I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.

Political parties exist to get bums on seats.

The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.

We will not lose this election for lack of money.

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.

If you are a Democrat, and you get less than 90% of the black vote, you are going to likely lose your election.

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.