Election Quote by Christopher Hitchens

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

— John Hickenlooper

Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

— Frank Herbert

No matter the candidate, every detail in a campaign is carefully and strategically framed for our consumption. The devil is in them.

— Leandra Medine

You're basically like glass: People see the candidates through you.

— John Dickerson

In the time I've spent in public life, one of the things I've learned is that some issues look a lot different when you're…

— John F. Kerry

Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also…

— Mary McCarthy

It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

— Sal Albanese

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

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The elections are run by the same guys who sell toothpaste. They show you an image of a sports hero, or a sexy model,…

— Noam Chomsky

“Politics is beginning to gather itself into an election season in which the price of a candidate's haircuts will be as important for a…

— Charles P. Pierce

In politics, what appears is.

— Antonio de Oliveira Salazar