Quote by Jonathan Allen

“It’s true, though, that we struggled to stay on message. My advisors had to deal with a candidate—me—who often wanted something new to say,…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Why did Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan begin remarking frequently during the 1980s and ’90s that people were entitled to their own opinions but not…

— Kurt Andersen

“To me campaigning is about persuading, but this campaign was about models and data. I knew data was important. I had used it in…

— Donna Brazile

“That was something else I owed Teddy White. I and others of my generation, who went from newspaper and magazine reporting to writing books,…

— David Halberstam

John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

— Mark Shields

“(Almost everybody in the White House followed Trump’s thinking by tracking whom he had called the night before.)”

— Michael Wolff

“I had never run a campaign, but I was an organizer. My job was to create momentum by mobilizing the constituency we had, which…

— Junius Williams

If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.

— Bernie Sanders

“Behind all political success is attention to detail.” LARRY O’BRIEN, adviser to John F. Kennedy”

— Catherine Shaw

“[O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn’t much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on the candidate’s…

— George Packer

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

— John Hickenlooper

“This was part of the removed way that he and his team encountered the world, the very quality that Minyon had warned me about…

— Donna Brazile