Campaign Quotes

When I am the candidate, I run the campaign.

— Richard M. Nixon

I will not campaign for any party.

— Akkineni Nagarjuna

It starts with campaign finance reform.

— Zack Space

I was a campaign widow.

— Laura Moser

“Truth is the greatest marketing campaign.”

— Richie Norton

Our campaign is the opposite of 'competence.'

— William J. Clinton

“Beauty is the PR campaign of the soul.”

— Alex Shakar

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

— Mario Cuomo

No one owes me a campaign, a job or contract. I'm supposed to go out and get that.

— Eva Marcille

When you look at my campaign, I don't go around sugarcoating things.

— Jon Runyan

I'm not connected to the Trump campaign in any way, shape, or form.

— Thomas Peterffy

It's a mandate for you to do in office what you said you would do on the campaign trail.

— Karl Rove

During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.

— Henry Adams

I call Steve Bannon the general of our campaign. It's true.

— Kellyanne Conway

[Donald] Trump still thinks he's in a campaign.

— Chuck Todd

Hypocrites are more enraging than extremists, as every campaign operative knows.

— Ari Melber

Truly, if you can't cover a five-car pile-up on Route 128, you should not be covering a presidential campaign.

— Molly Ivins

Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character…

— Epictetus

Leaving the E.U. will enable the U.K. to undertake a major campaign for import substitution.

— John Redwood

I think #BlackLivesMatter is a huge campaign that is important and integral to our advancement as a people.

— Chance The Rapper

I was very proud to support Obama's presidential campaign, from the primaries all the way to his historic victory.

— Daniel Lubetzky

Looking at how things might be under Trump is scary, particularly when a pinnacle moment in his campaign saw him mocking and…

— Sinead Burke

My first campaign was pretty ugly: the incumbent came after me hard with a lot of things that weren't true.

— Reid Ribble

Even though the Bush campaign ad tells you that Afghanistan is a new democracy at the Olympics because of Bush's efforts, Afghanistan…

— Peter Schuyler

Our ad campaign with Pfizer is educational. Lipitor is the most widely prescribed drug in the country. For every prescription, there is…

— Robert Jarvik

In campaign reporting more than any other kind of press coverage, reporters aren't just covering a story, they're a part of it…

— Michael Hastings

Well, the elected officials in both parties are receiving campaign contributions and support through electioneering communications from groups that aren't technically affiliated…

— Richard Painter

In 1840, William Henry Harrison is the first one to really campaign as a candidate, and the campaigns were totally frivolous. I…

— John Dickerson

“Most politicians are corrupt as they do not represent the masses that voted for them, but rather they choose to return numerous…

— Steven Magee

One of the enduring myths of campaign analysis is that you can actually count the number of 'undecided' voters by asking voters…

— Jeff Greenfield

The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finished Theodore White's 'The Making of…

— Michael Hastings

I don't know how it plays in San Francisco. But I can tell you I came out, during a reelection campaign, in…

— Pete Buttigieg

The (campaign) ads all have the same tone - the voice is hushed and amazed when talking about The Enemy, as if…

— James Lileks

You have got to know what you're doing on your very first day there. So, look, this is not an attack or…

— Marco Rubio

“Cherubim perhaps, take practice shots with the Big Bang. I would have preferred to write a book about the course of actions…

— P.J. O'Rourke

There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The brutality of the pace. This was my third presidential campaign and it was a thousand times faster paced than my first…

— Kevin Madden

I think our message,the Clinton campaign was very strong. Remember, this is their fourth campaign in South Carolina. Two for Bill Clinton.…

— Bernie Sanders

I campaigned for [Barack] Obama for more than a year. I was in Iowa, Minnesota, California, Arizona - just traveling around to…

— Scarlett Johansson

I think it's understandable that when questions are raised, people maybe are thinking about them and wondering about them, but I have…

— Hillary Clinton