Campaigns Quotes · Page 8

Donald Trump has a great campaign slogan: 'A complex world demands complex hair.'

— David Letterman

Newt Gingrich's campaign is broke. All the money gone. So now he's charging $50 for a photo. And for $100 you can marry him.

— David Letterman

Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.

— Teresa Heinz

Donald Trump's campaign manager said that you built a lot of businesses on the backs of little guys.

— Hillary Clinton

Melania Trump has not said what kind of visa she had, and her husband's campaign did not respond to NPR's inquiries before…

— Hansi Lo Wang

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

— Jeff Goodell

[Hillary] Clinton campaign says and we heard it at front, they tried to do that, they wanted to do that, they were…

— George Stephanopoulos

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

— Thomas Frank

While I didn't grow up in a family where there was domestic violence I knew of families in my neighbourhood where abuse…

— Huey Morgan

If the popular vote elected the president today, two states - California and New York - would be all you would need.…

— Rush Limbaugh

Obama's primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back.…

— Noam Chomsky

If you put everything, your heart and soul into a campaign, it might take you a while to come around to the…

— Keith Ellison

We've seen the Republican Party come apart at the seam with Donald Trump taking the remnants over the cliff. We've seen the…

— Jill Stein

A lot of today's campaigns are based on optimum positioning but are totally ineffective - because they are dull, or badly constructed,…

— David Ogilvy

We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud…

— Hugh Sidey

I ran two campaigns for governor in a state that's 2-1 Democrat where I did not mention my opponent in print, radio,…

— Gary Johnson

I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up…

— Wavy Gravy

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

Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming.…

— Moby

I think because I really didn't have a good strategy for my campaign. I didn't plan it the right way. ... As…

— Hillary Clinton

Essentially what my campaign is about, it's about anything, this is saying we've got bring that money back into the middle class…

— Bernie Sanders

American girls are much more financially savvy - for example, if a girl went to Paris and she was going to do…

— Michael Flutie

That was a brave and principled thing for Ecuador to do [give me asylum application]. Now we have the U.S. election [campaign],…

— Julian Assange

The chairs [in Congress] are part of the "Gang of Eight." They get briefed on every covert-action program and everything like that.…

— Edward Snowden

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

— H. L. Mencken

I fully support the NOH8 campaign and all it stands for and am proud to be a part of it. But I…

— Cindy McCain

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of…

— Nick Lampson

Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.

— Charles Krauthammer

Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.

— Bill Maher

When I hit the skins they all say, 'Damn Kane... You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!'

— Big Daddy Kane

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an…

— James Vincent McMorrow

Part of the challenge of the Barack Obama campaign was to try to neutralize that white backlash, and of course, he was…

— Cornel West

Scott Walker's campaign slogan is 'Reform. Growth. Safety.' Which is actually similar to Donald Trump's new slogan: 'Mexico. Money. Crazy.'

— Jimmy Fallon

We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.

— Howard Dean

Britney Spears is definitely my favorite past Candie's girl; her campaigns were gorgeous.

— Lea Michele

As we keep up the pressure, our air campaign will continue to hit ISIL harder than ever.

— Barack Obama

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

— Dominique de Villepin

Hillary Clinton needs to address the racist undertones of her 2008 campaign.

— Donald Trump

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

— John Oliver

Social media marketers have already shown unusual savvy in executing campaigns in Brazil.

— Ryan Holmes