Campaigns Quotes · Page 7

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

— H. L. Mencken

Millennials really don't turn out in numbers that people expect and hope for. Speaking of global warming and climate change, you know…

— Rush Limbaugh

What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and,…

— Michael Pollan

When I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

Politics is a damn expensive business. I had one hell of a time trying to raise money as a candidate. I had…

— Joe Biden

For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people. Gays and…

— Coretta Scott King

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

— Chris Christie

Campaigns and primaries can get ugly. There are always messy squabbles.

— Joy-Ann Reid

Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the…

— Peter Schuyler

I have been working with Women's Aid since 2003 when I became the charity's first Ambassador, and am so pleased to be…

— Will Young

Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true…

— Carly Fiorina

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 main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial…

— H. L. Mencken

People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Every chance at destabilizing [Bashar] Assad... the bombing campaign causes a flood of refugees into Jordan, there's already half a million in…

— Rand Paul

The Baltic republics have invented something totally new. Do you know what? They use the word 'non-citizens' for people who have been…

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

I'm really looking forward to both meeting with Sen. [Bernie] Sanders as soon as our campaign teams find a time that works…

— Hillary Clinton

Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against…

— Eleanor Smeal

[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

If my wife hears one more report that I'm joining Hillary's campaign I'm going to have to go in the Pundit Protection…

— Paul Begala

One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to…

— Jon Meacham

I am proud of the campaign that we ran. Obviously, I wish we could have done a little bit better.

— Bernie Sanders

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues…

— Matt Taibbi

We very constantly run this campaign to encourage people to go and get Identity Documents, to register, and so on. We'll continue…

— Thabo Mbeki