Rob Portman Quotes

President Obama is now losing to 'Republican Nominee' in polls - no name needed.

Obviously I'm young and I'm also Hispanic, two important groups in this election. And I'm confident that I can do a good job in articulating why President Obama ought to be the candidate that Americans select for the next four years.

The tactics and strategy of every Presidential election campaign is most influenced by the previous Presidential election.

There is no reason why the right Democratic nominee can't win Ohio. President Obama did it twice in 2008 and 2012.

It was gonna be a race [2016] that set a foundation for the Left in the future. But given the math, I didn't think he was gonna make it. And so I started to shift to Hillary [Clinton] and to discussions of the platform and discussions of what to do.

It's kind of hard to win most elections on anti-family, immorality, and Satan-worship.

If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.

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.

My endorsement of Senator Obama will not be welcome news to my friends and family at the Clinton campaign.

There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion. One, is your convention speech; two, are the base; three, is the selection of your vice president.

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

Any concerns that Romney will adopt McCain's milquetoast campaign model are quickly diminishing.

The Obama campaign was smarter, quicker on their feet than the Clinton camp.

The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise.

I made a decision when I ran for president that I wouldn't whine about my coverage in the media, and I never did.

Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.

Re-election campaigns of sitting presidents are always about the sitting president.

Unfortunately it has come to pass that we choose our Presidents because of their vote-getting qualities in certain doubtful states rather than for their qualifications for the office they are to fill.

You can't win an election with money alone.

It's the only way that Democrats can win in Illinois, is to say, 'Oh, Kirk has health problems, he's going to retire.' For Democrats looking at a minority life and seeing that they cannot win in Illinois is so frustrating that they will just assume away any issue. They'll just say to willing reporters, 'I think Kirk is going to retire.'

Why did Donald Trump become president? I don't know.

I did not want to be a source of diversion from the Mondale-Ferraro ticket. It appears no matter what I did or tried to do, that would not be the case. I came to the conclusion that it was in the best interest of all to stand aside.

Some have said, 'Gosh, Donald Trump is going to hurt you.' Some have said, 'Gosh Donald Trump is going to help you.' He may be helpful in certain parts of Ohio, but I'm going to run my own campaign.