Political Outcome Quotes

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.

There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.

I would be surprised if Donald Trump got elected.

If Latinos stay at home, we determine the outcome of an election.

You've got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We'll see how it all shakes out.

There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.

People spend money on negative campaigning because it works.

We have voted. The people have spoken. It’s just going to take a little while to figure out what we said.

Politics, as a profession, is not about making the right political decision. It's about making the right decision and then managing the political consequences.

A Final Say referendum on the Brexit that actually lies in front of us will give everyone a tangible and decisive vote. I and most people, Brexiteers and Remainers alike, want the same thing - the best for the UK.

It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.

Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.

Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners.

One of the questions I often get asked is, "Were you surprised that Trump won?" I always answer the same way: "I was surprised, I am surprised and I will never stop being surprised."

You can’t win if you don’t play. The people who get involved in politics are more likely to get their way.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

A statesman is judged by results. If his policy fails he goes. It may be unfair, but there is a kind of rough justice about it.

If the election had turned out differently, I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and Vice President Biden could be on the road selling his book 'Going Rogaine.'

I would feel much the way I feel when anybody is elected. You deal with what you end up getting.

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

Al Gore won the popular vote and didn't get elected president, so I'm not going to sit here and kill myself over not winning Defensive Player of the Year.

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.

It should be clear to everyone what happens when the populists can set the agenda.

In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.