Kellyanne Conway Quotes

The fact is that Hillary Clinton could not stand up to a cheating husband, so how in the world would she stand up to North Korea and some of our other enemies around the globe?

- Kellyanne Conway

I didn't even know I was the first female Republican campaign manager until someone pointed it out to me on Twitter, and I said that can't be true. And then I realized this must be such a small group of women. And right away, I know them all - Susan Estrich and Donna Brazile and Beth Myers - and I respect them enormously.

- Kellyanne Conway

I think that people have realized it's very unwise to bet against Donald Trump.

- Kellyanne Conway

If you heard 40 times in a day that Newt Gingrich takes the wings off of butterflies, eventually you'd believe it.

- Kellyanne Conway

Caucuses are different than primaries, and winner-take-all primaries are how Mitt Romney eventually took over Newt Gingrich in 2012 and why Rick Santorum left.

- Kellyanne Conway

Although it shouldn't be, men behaving badly is sort of an occupational hazard for those working in Washington.

- Kellyanne Conway

Donald Trump performs consistently better in online polling, where a human being is not talking to another human being about what he or she may do in the election.

- Kellyanne Conway

The errors in media polling rarely benefit a Republican.

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To be confronted as you exit the polling place is really a matter of if you have the time, if you have the inclination to speak to a stranger, and if you want to divulge what is a very sacred, private matter - the way that you just voted.

- Kellyanne Conway

Romney, like Sen. John McCain and Bob Dole before him, were meant to mollify moderates, attract Independents, and 'rebrand' the party in a way that mostly fits the ideal of media types who would never vote Republican anyhow. Each of them lost.

- Kellyanne Conway

The average American is more focused on leadership than likeability. And more focused on qualifications than quality of speakership.

- Kellyanne Conway

Women are trying to have it all but are trying to regain control over their time. That's why many women are busting out of the traditional workforce and starting their own businesses.

- Kellyanne Conway

Americans don't believe that we have a surplus of jobs. They believe that we have a surplus of job seekers, and they are competing for these jobs.

- Kellyanne Conway

The Republican Party is too fixated on this fiction of electability.

- Kellyanne Conway

John McCain was one of the senators who voted against George Herbert Walker Bush's disastrous break of his no new taxes pledge when he raised taxes in 1990. That's really important. He's a supply-sider. And he's got supply siders like Phil Graham and Jack Kemp to vouch for that.

- Kellyanne Conway

In New York, the currency is money. You have money, and you get anonymity.

- Kellyanne Conway

Very few people know anybody like John McCain, someone who suffered and had his body, yet not his spirit, broken for six years as a POW and who has served his nation.

- Kellyanne Conway

It wasn't like anybody said, 'Oh, Ronald Reagan will have a landslide in 1980.' In fact, you look back at the Dukakis numbers, the Perot numbers, there was always this presumption that the Republican was going to lose. Not just that the Democrat would win, but that the Republican was going to lose.

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The country is increasingly culturally conservative, with a small C. Every time marriage is on the ballot, it passes. People are increasingly pro-life. They don't like taxes.

- Kellyanne Conway

Women in my focus groups, they say a bald man is trustworthy. He has nothing to hide.

- Kellyanne Conway

I've been in a very male-dominated business for decades. I found, particularly early on, that there's plenty of room for passion, but there's very little room for emotion.

- Kellyanne Conway

Most political wives are accidental politicians.

- Kellyanne Conway

Donald Trump is at his very best, at his very best, when he talks about the issues.

- Kellyanne Conway

Donald Trump embraces his wealth. Hillary Clinton wants us to forget that she made $21.5 million on 92 speeches.

- Kellyanne Conway

The fact is, in Mike Huckabee's case, he can say, 'I was a preacher, I'm a Christian, and so I believe that life begins at conception, ends at natural death.'

- Kellyanne Conway

Voters go into the ballot box with big ideas in their mind: leadership, change, experience, hope.

- Kellyanne Conway

Women look at the full measure of the man, not just one comment.

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African Americans are concerned about the scourge of abortion in their community, and respond to related facts and figures. Large majorities agree that every life should have a chance, regardless of race, socioeconomic status or circumstance.

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To me, it's a different kind of voter suppression to constantly try to make people feel like the election is over before it's even begun.

- Kellyanne Conway

What's happened with the over-the-counter birth control issue is that the Democrats didn't see it coming. They think that they've got a monopoly on talking to women from the waist down. Anything that has to do with reproduction and birth control and abortion - they call it women's health, then they call it women's issues.

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If the Republican Party does not learn to understand unmarried women as the political force and potent voting bloc that they have become, we risk becoming the minority party.

- Kellyanne Conway

In Gov. Huckabee's case, consistency is seen as principle... and that's incredibly valuable to voters.

- Kellyanne Conway

Women, if left to their own devices, are going to tend and trend Democratic. That is absolutely the case.

- Kellyanne Conway

I think it's important for people to understand that this started with President Bill Clinton. He, as president, thought it was such a big priority, he passed the defense of marriage - defense of traditional non-gay marriage - that we have it as a federal law.

- Kellyanne Conway

Women are still congenitally Democratic - and I'm the Republican pollster saying that.

- Kellyanne Conway

I look at what the polls say about attributes. I noticed in 2004 that George W. Bush led John Kerry by double digits for eight straight months on the question of who is more likely to take a position and stick with it.

- Kellyanne Conway

I want to do right, apart from my gender - I want to do right as a campaign manager.

- Kellyanne Conway

Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama, each were told repeatedly, 'You can't win.' They all won.

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The hidden Trump vote in this country is a very significant proposition.

- Kellyanne Conway

Hillary is the Mitt Romney of 2016, where she has very little in common with the average person. She doesn't drive herself anywhere, she doesn't put on her own makeup, she doesn't cook her own meals, and she doesn't research her own materials. She has very little in common with the average woman.

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Of course there's racism in this country, and we have a terrible history of that in this nation.

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Most women say 'Please speak to me from the waist up: my brain, my eyes.'

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Pro-lifers believe there are two victims in an abortion: the unborn child and the woman who felt that that was her best option.

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Candidates matter. Campaigns matter. 'He can win' or 'She can't win' is up there with, 'I'm going to lose 10 pounds, win the lottery, and live forever.' Saying it does not make it so.

- Kellyanne Conway

I tell people all the time, 'Don't be fooled, because I am a man by day.'

- Kellyanne Conway

We got Defense of Marriage Act as a federal law from President Bill Clinton. And it was passed with bipartisan support.

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Sexual harassment is as difficult to prove as it is to disprove.

- Kellyanne Conway

Gov. Huckabee seems like somebody who could run effectively against a female candidate and not make it seem like he's being derogatory and impolite.

- Kellyanne Conway

The caricatures that the mainstream media and the Democrats have about Republicans have taken hold.

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To women, a flip-flopper is the functional equivalent of the guy who never calls and always changes his mind.

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Voters tend to reject overreach and distraction - women in particular.

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I've noticed a lot of people are very bold and blustery on Twitter because it's easy to do that with the poison keyboard and a hundred and forty characters.

- Kellyanne Conway

Americans overwhelmingly believe that Americans who want to do jobs, who are looking for work, should have a fair opportunity, if not a preference, to do that work.

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You live by the media, you live by the polls, you've got to suffer by the polls, too.

- Kellyanne Conway

Women have been late-in-the-game deciders. They weigh all of the issues, all of the images, and all of the information and make a choice almost at the last minute.

- Kellyanne Conway

2016 is a change election, and that favors Trump.

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Washington is built on power.

- Kellyanne Conway

Republican politics can sometimes feel like you're walking into, you know, an Elks Club or bachelor party.

- Kellyanne Conway

I never knew how ugly and how stupid I was until, you know, we had Twitter.

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Nothing creates a winner quite like earning it, not just inheriting it.

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Voters deserve - and they indeed expect - a good debate on the issues.

- Kellyanne Conway

I don't sugarcoat things, but I'm very polite in delivering them.

- Kellyanne Conway

Women overwhelmingly support conservative policies.

- Kellyanne Conway