Cokie Roberts Quotes

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

Most people vote against somebody, rather than for somebody.

I think I can really make people go and vote against the system - voting for Ksenia Sobchak.

Political science has long tried to tackle a fundamental question of voter behavior: Do voters choose politicians because those politicians hold views that they like, or do voters choose policy positions because the politicians they like say those positions are correct?

Moving forward, I will be committed to building a stronger team so that the GOP can compete and win statewide in 2018, including the possibility of being a candidate in that cycle.

What Republican voters have shown us is that when they have the choice between the real thing and the fake one, they go with the real one every time.

I think all nonpresidential elections are won or lost by motivating your own voters.

Come 2012, I am not going to be voting for someone based on who I think would be the most fun to hang out and have a beer with. I am going to be voting for the person that I think will have the best chance of beating President Obama and gaining votes from independents.

I would never enter politics, but I will go out and vote.

The reality is, our problem isn't that more people are voting Republican than Democrat - our problem is most people who would vote Democrat aren't voting.

I'm well aware of the dynamics of turnout and measuring enthusiasm and identifying and turning out voters. That's something I'm cognizant of in running a successful campaign.

We fail to continue to talk to, to court, to engage our voters. And then we look up and expect our nominees to look up and go from 0 to 100 in a matter of two months to try to secure a victory.

Democrats and progressives do well when the voter turnout is high. Republicans do well when the voter turnout is low.

If we had known we were going to win control of the Senate, we'd have run better candidates.

How about if I had two people in the race? The number would've been twice as good. In other words, people with 2 million people. Because the Republican party increased.

Remember, at the end of the day [election] campaigns are always about the candidates.

If you're going to impeach him, impeach [Donald Trump].If he did something wrong, arrest him. But don't cry the blues because you didn't get the vote out and this man had a genius way of winning the election.

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

Are people who want this kind of progressive change not turning up at polling stations? Are they not voting for progressive representatives? It's hard to put your finger on why we are where we are.

In the midterm elections, a 102-year-old woman voted for the first time in a U.S. election. Unfortunately, she voted for Woodrow Wilson.

Each congressional race really depends upon the candidates and how they carry the message.

The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.

Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls.

As the race for president tightens, Hillary Clinton's campaign hopes to win over millions of people who voted for Bernie Sanders in the primaries.

Any Democrat who squirms on the tax-cut issue in the primaries has no chance ' zero ' to win the nomination. Each will have to take the “pledge” to oppose the Bush tax cuts. Thus, Bush will have succeeded in creating a situation where anyone who can win the nomination can't win the election. Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.