Campaigns Quotes · Page 2

Race has been a big issue in this [presidency] campaign [2016].

— Lester Holt

I have never run campaigns based on an ethnic coalition.

— John Liu

There are no small steps in great affairs.

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

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

— Mark Shields

Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

— George Bernard Shaw

Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.

— Nicolas Gomez Davila

Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.

— Harry Browne

I keep my campaign promises, but I never promised to wear stockings.

— Ella T. Grasso

For years, many public health campaigns that aimed at changing habits have been failures.

— Charles Duhigg

Donald Trump believes now that Barack Obama was born in the United States. But that issue was raised originally by Hillary Clinton's…

— Rudy Giuliani

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

— Mitt Romney

Everyone's been on the "hip-hop is dead" campaign for years, and now it's the most unsure-of-itself genre ever.

— Aesop Rock

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

— Anonymous

Shockingly enough, what people say during campaigns is meant to increase the odds they get elected.

— Richard N. Haass

I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.

— Park Geun-hye

People are moping around and I think campaigns can be about lifting the spirits of the American people.

— Jeb Bush

There are certain things that don't mix well with MS. One is staying up late at night. Another is big, noisy crowds.…

— Ann Romney

I have very distinct things that I like. I have very distinct opinions. Just because I choose to be a little less…

— Cindy McCain

When NBC News first assigned me to the Barack Obama campaign, I must confess my knees quaked a bit…I wondered if I…

— Lee Cowan

My family has been around campaigns for a long time. It's something you really have to be sure that you alone want…

— Anonymous

I don't think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister's…

— Tony Abbott

The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against.…

— Pat Sajak

This type of discourse in the campaign is just unwarranted. But it was started by Ms.[Hillary] Clinton. Ms. Clinton has started the…

— Chris Christie

When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much…

— Mark Shields

As with military campaigns, cultural warfare is always decided over the pragmatic problems of strategy, organization and resources. . . . The…

— James Davison Hunter

In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The Bush campaign for re-election has officially begun. They're actually running television commercials. Have you seen any of the television commercials? In…

— David Letterman

I remember we [with Donald Trump] were sitting in a meeting and he walked in and he looked at me and he…

— Kellyanne Conway

The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous…

— Clarence Darrow

This counter-terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out Isil wherever they exist, using our air power…

— Barack Obama

For anyone who doesn't believe that Donald Trump is the best candidate to go head to head with Hillary Clinton in November,…

— Ted Cruz

President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the…

— Paul Ryan

It's a strategic thing to be in permanent campaign mode.

— Rush Limbaugh

I think I know a lot about campaigns.

— Jenna Bush

Campaigns are crazy things. They're half startup, half enterprise.

— Harper Reed

Bill Clinton was giving the Clinton campaign the best advice.

— Mary Matalin

Small blogs are starting up big campaigns.

— Jessica Valenti

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

— John James Ingalls

I am a bit biased. I co-chair the campaign effort of George W. Bush.

— Katherine Harris

We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.

— Mitt Romney