Fabrizio Moreira Quotes

We should hold the presidential elections at least a few weeks before the congressional election so that the voters will know which party will control the White House.

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

A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises.

I just think that the independent voters are going to take their time and look at both candidates.

We don't win or lose elections because of [party] rules.

You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.

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.

In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

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.

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.

It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

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

People don't vote parties. They vote individuals.

There's only one problem with this year's upcoming Presidential election—one of the candidates has to win.

It is true that in some states the only important vote is the primary, when you choose between different members of the same party. In these states, where our two-party system usually does not function, it is important that everyone vote in the primaries. Elsewhere throughout the country, citizens should vote both in the primaries and in the final election, for where the two-party system works they will always have a choice between party candidates.

In our system today, many people don’t have to win general elections; they just have to win primaries.

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

I think the trend to move towards caucuses and conventions, whether to nominate senators, governors or presidential nominees, I think the move towards caucuses and conventions is a very bad one, and that our party should reward those states that spend the time and money to have primaries.

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

The electoral strategy for 2016 was, 'Vote for me; I'm not Trump,' and, 'Trump is dangerous, so get out and vote.'

Ohio chose the president in 2000 and 2004. The independent voters, the so-called swing voters, are the ones who make the difference.

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'm from Florida and we have huge primary contests there.

Trump won 44.4 percent of votes in Virginia in 2016. At press time, Ed Gillespie had won 45 percent of the vote in 2017.