Big Quote by John Dickerson

The rise of the Tea Party, along with the emergence of Christine O'Donnell in Delaware, Sharron Angle in Nevada, Carl Paladino in New York…

— Robert Dallek

I see a lot of parallels between my candidacy and the Tea Party. I would not have been elected had there not been a…

— Jimmy Carter

Nineteenth-century American politics were notoriously raucous, with frequent violence in and around elections.

— Jamelle Bouie

Herbert Hoover versus Al Smith in 1928 was one of the dirtiest elections in American history.

— Joseph Cummins

I travelled through the night in a bus with the Kentucky Tea Party en route to a massive rally in Washington. For the most…

— Andrew Neil

[My father ] came home from World War II and he voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower. He was pretty thoughtful about those things, but never,…

— Jeff Sessions

I ran for Congress as a first-time candidate to fight to protect everyone with a pre-existing condition, to bring down the skyrocketing costs of…

— Elissa Slotkin

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

— Marco Rubio

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.

— Mary Cheney

“Presidential campaigns are on the verge of turning into media contests between master operators of the Internet. What once had been substantive debates about…

— Henry Kissinger

“America First,” a campaign slogan of Woodrow Wilson, had been adopted by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s”

— Jason Fagone

I loved campaigning.

— Elizabeth Edwards