Re-Election Quotes

While President, I have been President - emphatically.

I think politics is a reason why a lot of stuff doesn't get done. There's a lot of favors, and a lot of people are held back by their intentions of being re-elected or the things that they owe their party or constituents.

I've never, in my whole 30 years in office, run a negative ad.

I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.

The Bush campaign for re-election has officially begun. They're actually running television commercials. Have you seen any of the television commercials? In one of the commercials, you see George Bush for thirty seconds. In another commercial, you get to see George Bush for sixty seconds - kind of like his stint in the National Guard.

If you know the only way to lose your seat is to get out-conservatived in a primary, you'll never let anyone get to your right.

You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.

Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

Only the most politically secure congressmen can afford to offend constituents.

When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

An elected executive—whether President, governor or mayor—needs a popularity majority every day in his term.

You've got just one year when Congress treats you right. Then they start worrying about themselves.

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

They want what every first term administration wants—a second term.

We tend to think of the House as a less historically significant legislative body than the Senate. There are more representatives than there are senators, they're up for re-election every two years, and many come and go without having much of an impact.

In order to get re-elected, Obama told us Al Qaeda was on the run and all but defeated.

Re-election campaigns of sitting presidents are always about the sitting president.

I thank the voters of Upstate N.Y. for this privilege to serve and pledge to continue to work tirelessly on their behalf in this final term.

Four More Years of the Full Dinner Pail

Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars.

One of the problems in Washington is there are far too many politicians who desperately just want to get re-elected.

I still say save your money, don't waste your money or time running against Donald Trump in 2020 because you're not going to beat him.

The President wants to avoid being a lame duck. He’s trying not to limp and quack at the same time.

No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.