Direction Quote by Stanley A. McChrystal

Campaigns are about adjustments.

— James Carville

The first thing I learned is that campaigns are about money. I had this romantic idea that campaigns were about law and debates and…

— Michael Seibel

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

— Chris Christie

People are moping around and I think campaigns can be about lifting the spirits of the American people.

— Jeb Bush

When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

— Hugh Masekela

Presidential election campaigns offer a unique opportunity to educate the public and engage in an intelligent dialogue on issues of national importance.

— Thomas Hauser

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

— Calvin Trillin

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

I think the best campaigns are campaigns of ideas and substance.

— Martin O'Malley

A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.

— Donna Brazile

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

— John Podhoretz

“Our campaigns have not grown more humanistic because our candidates are more benevolent or their policy concerns more salient. In fact, over the last…

— Sasha Issenberg