Barrel Quote by John McDonnell

I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a…

— Marianne Williamson

For those uninitiated in the art of guerrilla war tactics: Smear campaigns never run fair or square. So just to set the record straight:…

— Tanushree Dutta

[The Democracy Party] did it to Dennis Kucinich.They certainly did it to Bernie, as we saw in the e-mails. They did it to Howard…

— Jill Stein

They've been very helpful. They allow voters to cut through the din and clutter of the $100-million smear campaign the unions have been waging…

— Todd Harris

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.

— Mark Shields

To Brian Ellis, you owe my family and this community and apology for a disgusting and despicable smear campaign,

— Justin Amash

This is the deadening consensus that crosses party lines, that dominates our major media, and that is strangling the liberty and prosperity that were…

— Ron Paul

On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They…

— Van Jones

We see and realise that the political situation in the United States is influenced by those who have lost the elections but refuse to…

— Vladimir Putin

Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines…

— J. M. Coetzee

Sometimes, anonymous sources, when merely stating opinions or running a smear campaign, are certainly cowards.

— Rod Lurie

“Langdon quickly explained how most people pictured satanic cults as devil-worshiping fiends, and yet Satanists historically were educated men who stood as adversaries to…

— Dan Brown