Electoral Competition Quotes

You know, if it's a three-way race, the public has more choice than if it's a two-way race, and has more choice in a two-way race than a one-way race.

[Politics in America is:] A chess tournament disguised as a circus.

We want to be the alternative party in Tamil Nadu.

Donald Trump can't beat Hillary Clinton, I think it's very clear, and she doesn't want to run against me, because I can beat her, because I will fight her and force her to fight on ground that she will lose on.

We are fighting the communal BJP on the one hand and the corrupt Congress on the other.

Politics is a body contact sport.

The latest polls show that Arnold Schwarzenegger is trailing Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante in the polls. That's insane. I mean, think about it, this guy Cruz Bustamante has never even been in a movie.

The Democrats complain; I choose to compete.

The Republican Party does not want to defeat Democrats.

You've got to attract interest in your candidate. The problem when you're running far behind is that you've got to move through those positive phases very quickly. Then, you have to draw attention to the other guy. You've got to create interest in why you differ from him and you've got to create a desire to remove him.

We are the only campaign that has beaten Donald Trump. And we're the only candidate that can beat Donald Trump. If you look at the Super Tuesday states, we're running neck and neck with Donald in states all across Super Tuesday.

Politics is like boxing — you try to knock out your opponents

I welcome an arms race for minority ethnic voters. This will ensure we all raise our game.

Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.

Our political parties exist for no other reason than to win power; they are not ideological debating societies designed to present a particular political philosophy and to persuade voters to accept it.

Democracy is about electoral competition.

There must not be a party monopoly on power.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule-- and both commonly succeed, and are right.

Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.

Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats or close general elections. That must be good for democracy.

It is not healthy to have a country governed by just one political party. There should be other political families taking part in government.

Incumbents have too much power and challengers have too little opportunity.

Any candidate who'd offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon - someone with a different concept of the presidency - could have challenged him and come very close to beating him.

We've been very lucky to have UKIP in the U.K. If we hadn't been here, the BNP would be doing very well.

We thought for the longest time we might have a chance to run the table because we're such nice guys and centrist party, etcetera, but not getting into the debates really sort of foreclosed that option.