In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the state primaries to sneak up on Hillary Clinton and establish a lead Obama never surrendered. John Podhoretz
Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful. Sarah Palin
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. Walter Lippmann
During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches. Kate Smith
Had I stayed longer in some primaries, I would have probably done better in states like Nevada, California, and New Mexico - but I ran out of the money after the second primary in New Hampshire. Bill Richardson
