Election Victory Quotes

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

It was a good election, a good campaign, and a good friend won.

I'm a very happy, content member of David Cameron's team. I fought very hard to get my friend elected as leader of the Conservative party, then elected as the prime minister of this country, and I'm very happy being part of that team that is bringing change to this country.

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.

When I first started campaigning, I was really excited. Two-thirds of the way through, I thought, 'Why am I doing this?' Then I got really excited when I realized I was going to win.

We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.

There have been numerous instances when facing the threat of a Communist Party or popular front election victory in the free world we have met this threat and turned it successfully.

I'm proud that Colorado delivered a victory to Barack Obama in 2008 and we will do so again in 2012.

Of course I want to be president, I want to win, but I also want to be sincere.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

There was always this sense, even early on in the campaign, that if the senator Obama could score this upset victory in Iowa, that there was a pretty good chance that he would end up being president of the United States.

Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in November, which was an electoral win with 49 states. And the sheer unnecessariness of the Watergate break-in is something that must have tormented him and his allies in all of the years that followed.

It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency." —George W. Bush, June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling.

I'm not afraid of elections. I've won every election I've fought in.

No doubt it was better to have become president than not.

George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate and the House and to increase his own vote (by over 3.5 million) since Franklin D. Roosevelt, political genius of the 20th century, in 1936.

There were 17 people in the race. I got more votes than anybody in the history of Republican politics. By millions.

If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.

I've invested the money to bring a Republican message to the City of New York and to win. It's money I earned and earned it honestly. I owe nobody.

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.

It's not that people voted for me because I was an athlete, but what did help was that people knew my name.... The two Olympic gold medals were the most important contributions to my campaign fund.

Candidates who win while spending less than their opponents still usually have to spend quite a lot. While not a surefire guarantor of victory, a large war chest -even if not the largest-is usually a necessary condition. Money may not guarantee victory, but the lack of it usually guarantees defeat. Without large sums, there is rarely much of a campaign, as poorly funded 'minor' candidates have repeatedly discovered.

You know, we - if, for example, Jerry Brown can withstand, you know, what will probably end up being $200 million of spending by his opponent and get elected governor of California, that will be a big victory in the nation's largest state.

There was nothing that said the road to popular vote. Hey guys, we won. You don't have to respond.