Ron Fournier Quotes About Victory

Quotes about: Victory

• Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories.

  Ron Fournier

  Party, Cowboy, Leader

• Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.

  Ron Fournier

  Two, Victory, Desire

• Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.

  Ron Fournier

  Victory, President, Campaigns

  "Ron Fournier Is Smarter Than You Are" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

• A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington.

  Ron Fournier

  Victory, President, Guarantees

• If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

  Ron Fournier

  Mean, Victory, Scandal

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