Campaigns Quotes - Page 3

I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell.

The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over.

Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.

I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns.

If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon.

Political campaign must not be aimed at collecting ballots, instead, it's honestly aim at seeking support for an ideology.

American democracy is really under attack here [Clinton campaign that was hacked]. And the question is how are we and in particular and how are Democrats going to respond to this. We have to understand this is really, really quite extraordinary. And it would seem to me that the FBI shouldn't be getting rolled by the House Republicans and that's what happened here.

When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration.

Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from.

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.

The International Court of Justice (a.k.a. World Court) is the judicial branch of the United Nations and in the early 1990's a campaign started and it was supported by civil society non-governmental groups around the world.

A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.

And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?

If you put everything, your heart and soul into a campaign, it might take you a while to come around to the realization that, you know, another person has won.

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

Here's why most campaigns get data wrong. They treat it as an afterthought and they treat it as sort of a logistic.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication-- Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn't make it less true.

I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money.

Donald Trump bigotry, his bluster, his bullying, have become his campaign.

I am suspending my presidential campaign.

The reason that minorities and women dont have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

Mounting a campaign against plutocracy makes as much sense to the typical Washington liberal as would circulating a petition against gravity. What our modernized liberal leaders offer is not confrontation but a kind of therapy for those flattened by the free-market hurricane: they counsel us to accept the inevitability of the situation.

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.