Campaigns Quotes · Page 2

People do not like negative campaigns.

— Sushma Swaraj

Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.

— Mary Cheney

When I am the candidate, I run the campaign.

— Richard M. Nixon

No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy

— Carl von Clausewitz

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

— Chuck Todd

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

— Kellyanne Conway

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

— Henry Adams

I don't make any apologies for what I do on the campaign trail.

— George W. Bush

The last time I didn't sexually harass someone here at the campaign, I didn't pay them $850,000 dollars.

— Kellyanne Conway

One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the…

— Alexander Suvorov

The Board of Trade Make Do and Mend campaign is intended to help you get the last ounce of wear out of…

— Hugh Dalton

I don't know that I'm in a position to give campaign advice to Donald Trump, given that he just whipped me in…

— Ted Cruz

Conservatives claim [Hillary] Clinton campaign involved in satanic 'spirit cooking'.

— Bill Maher

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

— Donna Brazile

Another big promise Donald Trump made during the campaign - cutting taxes. But there's some confusion over how much he wants to…

— Audie Cornish

That's what the conservative movement has become, is basically an annex of the [Donald] Trump campaign.

— Mark Shields

I feel like there is this weird thing where celebrity involvement in political campaigns kind of goes together like peanut butter and…

— Rashida Jones

When you look at that key question what is President-elect [Donald] Trump going to do, it's hard to glean that from his…

— George Stephanopoulos

Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and…

— James Surowiecki

In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The [Bernie] Sanders campaign said you might be suppressing the vote by doing this 'cause people in those states might decide to…

— Terry Gross

Absent the rapid mobilization of climate advocates at every level - and the pooling of all their energy, creativity, and resources into…

— Ross Gelbspan

I think a lot of campaigns mis-learned the lessons of Obama 2008. They overly focused on the particular tools, and less so…

— Zephyr Teachout

That's what all of us want, why we're getting involved in so many campaigns - we want to leave football in a…

— Fran Kirby

Samhain had its origins, like many modern holidays or celebrations, in pagan times. As the sidhe-seers had been inclined to erect churches…

— Karen Marie Moning

I am delighted to be part of this Women's Aid campaign - the statistics are frightening. I've spent time with the victims…

— Gethin Jones

The election of Donald Trump is, to me, this very clownish personality with no political experience, who had literally been using fascist…

— Ben H. Winters

There are three major political organizations in this country: the Republican Party, the Democratic Party and the Koch Brothers Party. With billions…

— Bernie Sanders

People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found…

— Jesse Owens

I've also followed through on my campaign promise and withdrawn America from the Trans-Pacific Partnership so that we can protect our economic…

— Donald Trump

We are very frustrated because we have a Supreme Court that seems determined to say that the wealthier have more right to…

— William J. Clinton

A drone strike is a terror weapon, we don't talk about it that way. It is; just imagine you are walking down…

— Noam Chomsky

When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best.

— Donald Trump

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

— Jon Runyan

Never say anything in a national campaign that anyone might remember.

— Eugene McCarthy

The tough thing about a campaign being over is, you lose your enemy.

— Mark Shields

The civilities of the great are never thrown away.

— Samuel Johnson

Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.

— Mark Shields

We have to talk about the way we finance campaigns.

— Dick Durbin

The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.

— Elizabeth Edwards