[Iowa Granny]

I need help. I'm looking for the origin of the following quote:

The Voters have spoken, the B@stards!

I know the quote, but I don't know who said it. Does anyone know how to do a search to find out who said it?

[mountaineer]

Maybe this:

Not Churchill, but Mo Udall said, "'The voters are the people who have spoken--the bastards,' an anecdote about politician used to console campaign workers on defeat in a primary." Chicago Sun-Times, July 14, 1976. From Political Quotations, Daniel B. Baker, ed., p. 45. link.

[mountaineer]

In every likelihood, two candidates will absorb the unvanquishable momentum that will deliver them their parties' nominations, and the others will be moping about late Tuesday feeling like Mo Udall that night in New Hampshire in 1976, when polling results inspired this unforgettable tribute: "The voters have spoken -- the bastards." source