Campaigns Quote by Barack Obama

A campaign adviser can change the outside appearance of the candidate, but the ideology and personality of the candidate remains the same.

— Mercedes Schlapp

Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.

— Charles M. Blow

There's always that tension between policy and personality in politics, and as voters, we have that, too: we all vote on issues, but we…

— Laura Kuenssberg

Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight…

— James Harvey Robinson

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

— Jeb Bush

One in a while, you discover a presidential candidate who has the potential to change the political conversation, to elevate key issues in voters'…

— Matt Kibbe

You can always find people, ordinary people, who will support your particular view, so it becomes a politics of personality, especially at the presidential…

— H. W. Brands

I love presidential campaigns. It is a time when people are feeling what is going on in the heart of our country.

— Kerry Kennedy

To a certain extent, people's behavior in a campaign is generally a reflection of how they would act in office.

— John Hickenlooper

It's all about media culture and people on television, and that feeling comfortable, friendly, or warm toward a candidate [in the elections] is a…

— Michael Schur

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

— H. L. Mencken

Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention…

— Norman Tebbit