Campaigns Quotes · Page 6

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

— Lester Holt

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

— Mark Shields

There are no small steps in great affairs.

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

I have never run campaigns based on an ethnic coalition.

— John Liu

My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.

— David Frum

Climate change is "some kind of tricky campaign made up by some commercial structures to promote their business projects."

— Dmitry Medvedev

Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of…

— Gail Collins

Political campaigns offer Americans an opportunity to adjust direction, reaffirm values, and recommit to the covenant that binds them together.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

I'm beholding to nobody, I've spent you know, tens and tens of millions of dollars on the campaign.

— Donald Trump

Ad campaigns are necessary for competition. But good PR educates people; that's all it is.

— Steve Jobs

“Bernie gave us something much more important than his candidacy for President; he gave us each other.”

— Kacey Carpenter

I am very proud of the campaign we ran and the supporters that came on board.

— Bernie Sanders

I personally am thrilled at the numbers of people, and particularly young people who are coming to support Bernie Sanders campaign. I…

— Hillary Clinton

The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If…

— Nancy Pelosi

While it can be aggressive playing rugby, the aggression doesn't leave the rugby pitch. A Real Man doesn't need to use violence…

— Danny Care

A CBS spokesman said the network's policy was tightened in September 2006 to forbid contributions to political campaigns. Previously, there was a…

— Bill Dedman

Nowadays it is the fashion to pretend that no single individual is ever responsible for a successful advertising campaign. This emphasis on…

— David Ogilvy

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels,…

— Bradley A. Smith

Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality.…

— Barack Obama

Yesterday, John McCain actually said that if he's president that he'll take on, and I quote, 'the old boys network in Washington.'…

— Barack Obama

The [Hillary] Clinton campaign posted a pretty clever online quiz that makes a similar point with the Republican presidential field. Who said…

— Chris Hayes

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning.…

— John Podhoretz

It is about something personal and specific, because when the John McCain campaign in 2008 decided to elevate Sarah Palin from total…

— Rachel Maddow

The governor of Minnesota [Mark Dayton], a couple of months ago he said that the Affordable Care Act is no longer affordable.…

— Donald Trump

There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays…

— Albert Camus

Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's…

— Tana French

The view that we know less than we thought we knew about how to change the human condition came, in time, to…

— James Q. Wilson

I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will…

— Jack Abramoff

Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.

— William Hague

My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing…

— Claire McCaskill

Barry Goldwater has definitely decided to be a candidate in '64. He will campaign in all thirteen states.

— George Carlin

Thanks to the tabloid campaigns I have many death threats and I was very pleased to get another one the other day.

— Tony Benn

I think people are exaggerating the fears of a Donald Trump presidency because they're coming off a campaign where they're very disappointed.

— Rudy Giuliani

Increasingly, it's actresses doing the big fashion advertising campaigns, and now there's no distinction between actresses and models.

— Romola Garai

If someone wants to run a campaign about '90s nostalgia, it's not going to be very successful.

— Jeb Bush

Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.

— Ron Fournier

The best way to appreciate our political process is to volunteer for a campaign and support a candidate you believe in.

— Rob McKenna

Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming.

— Charles Foster Johnson

Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!

— Susan B Anthony