Campaigns Quotes · Page 16

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.

— H. R. Haldeman

Barack Obama is incompetent. All he wants to do is campaign, and the last thing he wants to happen is to have…

— Donald Trump

This is so weird. I saw the new John Kerry campaign commercial and he says, 'I'm John Kerry and I approve of…

— Craig Kilborn

Newt Gingrich got in hot water during his 2012 presidential race for using campaign funds to pay himself $47,000 for a mailing list.

— Chris Hayes

The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality.

— Paul Krugman

I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.

— Donald Trump

In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.

— Simon Hoggart

I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks…

— Kirk Douglas

Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But…

— Mara Liasson

I ran two campaigns for governor in a state that's 2-1 Democrat where I did not mention my opponent in print, radio,…

— Gary Johnson

We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud…

— Hugh Sidey

A lot of today's campaigns are based on optimum positioning but are totally ineffective - because they are dull, or badly constructed,…

— David Ogilvy

We've seen the Republican Party come apart at the seam with Donald Trump taking the remnants over the cliff. We've seen the…

— Jill Stein

If you put everything, your heart and soul into a campaign, it might take you a while to come around to the…

— Keith Ellison

[When a John McCain political campaign video that used her image] That wrinkly white-haired guy used me in his campaign ad, which…

— Paris Hilton

We commend GM for being the first out of the starting gate in the Great Plug-In Car Race of 2007. GM's announcements…

— Felix Kramer

We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as…

— Barbara Kingsolver

While Newt Gingrich was running for president four years ago a controversy bubbled up regarding his campaign finances. You see, in December…

— Chris Hayes

I started as a community organizer. Every one of my campaigns was premised on getting new people involved. And if there's a…

— Barack Obama

On the morning of the fourth day, Jamie tipped a switchblade out of his box of cornflakes. “I think these promotional campaigns…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

This is what oligarchy looks like: Today, the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90…

— Bernie Sanders

Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the…

— Bernie Sanders

A very good friend of mine spent a fair amount of time doing postmortems and met with a number of the senior…

— Ted Cruz

The good and the bad news is that politicians rarely do what they say they are going to do when they campaign.

— Charles Koch

[Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.

— Bill Ayers

Ben Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed.

— Nick Denton

In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.

— Sean Parker

If we don't get reform in campaign financing, then we can write this country off.

— Frances Farenthold

If you knew how much information the campaigns had on you, you'd turn off your machines. And I mean that literally.

— Joe Trippi

The fact that he relies on facts - says things that are not factual - are going to undermine his campaign.

— George W. Bush

Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment.

— Antonin Scalia

Donald Trump's presidential campaign has been getting a lot of questions about his wife .

— Audie Cornish

It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.

— Elizabeth Warren

I'm from Hope, Arkansas, you may have heard of it. All I'm asking is, give us one more chance.

— Mike Huckabee

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

— John Rawls

I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.

— Laurance Rockefeller

In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I'm 40 and I just got my first beauty campaign with Clairol Nice and Easy

— Teri Hatcher