Birthplace Quote by Teresa Heinz

So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without…

— Gerald R. Ford

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

— Thomas Frank

I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and…

— Christine Lagarde

“The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Look...it's empty...as empty as a politician's promise!

— Harry Blackstone, Jr

It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.

— Elizabeth Warren

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

— Rich Lowry

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

— George Bernard Shaw

“...just because an ideology dies doesn't mean the value of its ideas is nullified”

— Miguel Syjuco

The problem isn’t too little money in political campaigns, but not enough.

— Newt Gingrich

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

— John Rawls

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

— Matt Taibbi