Bill Clinton Quotes

When I was 33 years old, I ran for United States Congress in New York City. I lost miserably.

I ran for Congress in 1992, but I lost the election, and I really dropped the idea of ever serving in Congress. Eventually, I went home and became the mayor of my city, West Palm Beach. I was mayor for eight years.

John McCain has not been president of the United States. He ran. He ran a spirited campaign. We lost. I hated to see us lose, but there were a lot of things working against us.

I didn't have the base I needed to win the election.

In 2006 it was a horrible election year, and, you know, I lost. But I lost because I continued to be a constant conservative, and the last six years I was someone who was a national figure in the sense that I was the third ranking Republican in leadership and I had just run President Bush's campaign in Pennsylvania.

We lost everything. We even won our own constituency.

In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon Johnson did not run for a second term.

…it was far better to be known as an ex-secretary than an ex-defeated candidate for governor.

Nobody with the name of Barack Obama will win anything.

Mitt Romney is to presidential campaigns as the Delta House grade point average was to Faber College - the worst in history.

I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side.

The polling data in 1980 had Jimmy Carter nine points, winning by nine points, four or five days out. I will never forget that election night. In 1980 it was so bad for the Democrats - they got skunked so bad - Jimmy Carter conceded before 10 p.m. Eastern time.

Trump is president of the United States. We can't blame our voters. We clearly did something terribly wrong.

There are plenty of examples of very wealthy people who have run for office and failed, certainly in Illinois.

I love my father, and I believe in him. And he lost to Dan Quayle. I had a hard time understanding how that could happen.

I recognize that as the guy who lost the election, I'm not in a position to tell everybody else how to win, all right? They're not going to listen, and I don't have the credibility to do that anyway.

Michigan is a state we should have won in 2016, and we didn't, and I want to understand why.

It used to be that I was known as 'the longest-serving independent in the history of the United States Congress,' which is true. Now I'm a 'self-professed democratic socialist.' Things change when you run for president.

The 2008 battle in Iowa for the Democratic caucus was perhaps the most titanic single nominating contest in the history of modern politics.

I lost my election because of my campaign, not because of what anyone else did.

I've had four presidential candidates visit me in the tents, and they all lost. I tried to get Hillary down here, but she's too smart. She won't come to the tents.

Since the election of President-elect Donald Trump, Democrats have repeatedly blamed everyone and everything for the loss of Hillary Clinton except for Clinton herself.

When I was in the military, my dad ran in the Mike Harris 1995 Common Sense Revolution election, and that's where I really made the decision that one day I would love to run for office.

My husband is in politics and my kids are already a campaign organ for him and I really love being their mother.