A Quote by William Galston

When you win an election, you are always inclined to believe you won for the reasons you wanted to win.

William Galston

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William Galston
Professor
Born: 1946

Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.

Virginia Foxx

There was also a sense that if he [Obama] did not win in Iowa, that it was very unlikely that he would be able to come back and win the Democratic nomination and win the general election. It was sort of an all-or-nothing bet. The stakes were that high.

Josh Earnest

I always wanted to win. Everyone has a bit of that in them, but I have even more of a will to win. Sometimes I might go overboard, whereas there are others who, yes, they want to win, but if they don't, it's no big deal for them.

Diego Costa

You believe that you can win the nomination of your party, and then you believe that you're the strongest candidate to win the election for your party.

Rudy Giuliani

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

Barack Obama

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

Barack Obama

I wanted to win to feed the hungry people of my community. I didn't want to win to buy a diamond.. I didn't have no diamonds then. I didn't want to win to buy a car, I didn't want to win to bring a couple of chicks downtown to a hotel. I wanted to win to feed the poor people of the community.

Mr. T

We inherited a national debt that has doubled in eight years. Think of it - $20 trillion. It's doubled. And we inherited a foreign policy marked by one disaster after another. We don't win anymore. When was the last time we won? Did we win a war? Do we win anything? Do we win anything? We're going to win. We're going to win big, folks. We're going to start winning again, believe me.

Donald Trump

We need to do more than win an election or win the House or win the presidency, my friends: we need to make this beloved country of ours God's country once again.

Pat Buchanan

So, in Kennedy's case, he was a Catholic. And people thought after the Al Smith election and so forth that a Catholic couldn't win in the United States. But when he was able to win in West Virginia, he proved that a Catholic could win, even in a heavily Protestant state.

Geoffrey Cowan

In seats where perhaps we don't expect to win at the next general election, the new infrastructure gives us a chance to win local council seats and to build a campaigning base which could help us to win in the future.

Theresa May

As a kid I watched the Academy Awards on television and always wanted one - or several - like one of my favorite directions, John Ford. He won six. On the other hand, Orson Welles, who's on the top of my list, didn't win any. Alfred Hitchcock didn't win any. Howard Hawks didn't win any.