Campaigns famous quotes

Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.
-- A. O. Scott

#Democracy #Campaigns #Cinema

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
-- Al Sharpton

#Christian #Presidential #Campaigns

I personally do not owe the debt that was owed by the campaign.
-- Alan Keyes

#Campaigns #Debt

People can expect to see a lot of me - I'm not too proud to stand on corners and hold my campaign signs.
-- Albert Wynn

#People #Campaigns #Proud

My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.
-- Alexander the Great

#Campaigns #Firsts #Failing

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.
-- Andrew Tobias

#Reform #Campaigns #Want

I see the work the pope has to do. It is a huge responsibility. Nobody campaigns for it.
-- Angelo Scola

#Responsibility #Campaigns #Pope

If I take donations from Big Corporates to fund our election campaign, I'll be accountable to them and would have to do what they tell me to do after winning elections. But if I take donations from common people to fund our Election Campaign, after winning, I'll be accountable to them
-- Arvind Kejriwal

#Winning #People #Campaigns

This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart

#Military #Hopeful #Campaigns

I have no more campaigns to run. I know because I won both of them.
-- Barack Obama

#Running #Campaigns

We remember the specter of sectarian violence -- al Qaeda's attacks on mosques and pilgrims, militias that carried out campaigns of intimidation and campaigns of assassination. And in the face of ancient divisions, you stood firm to help those Iraqis who put their faith in the future.
-- Barack Obama

#War #Campaigns #Division

Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
-- Barry Goldwater

#Heart #Campaigns #Politics

I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.
-- Bernard Arnault

#Ideas #Campaigns #Designer

I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns.
-- Bernie Sanders

#Political #Citizens United #Campaigns

There was a time when I was enamored of the Clintons. I knocked on doors, phone-banked and rallied during his campaign.
-- Beth Broderick

#Phones #Doors #Campaigns

Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.
-- Bill Maher

#War #Campaigns #Cash

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
-- Bill Murray

#Awards #Acting #Campaigns

During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.
-- Bob Beauprez

#Dollars #Campaigns #Election

Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it may prove to be the mountain-too-high for Barack Obama's campaign.
-- Bob Beauprez

#America #Mountain #Campaigns

We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million - that's a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.
-- Bob Brown

#Tasmania #Groups #Campaigns

People have their constitutional right to contribute to a campaign and if they have discretionary money that they want to contribute to a candidate, whether a Republican or a Democrat, they should be able to do so.
-- Brian Sandoval

#People #Campaigns #Want

That does almost nothing to address voters' concerns, which remain a potent factor in the campaign. The bottom line is, there's a reason Republicans keep pushing so hard against Obamacare: So far, it's working.
-- Byron York

#Obamacare #Doe #Campaigns

Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Kings #Enemy #Campaigns

I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
-- Caitlin Moran

#Class #Aristocracy #Campaigns

Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
-- Carl Bernstein

#Believe #Presidential #Campaigns

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror
-- Carl Levin

#Iraq #Campaigns #Liberation

There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.
-- Carl von Clausewitz

#War #Campaigns #Lines

The reason that minorities and women dont have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Office #Campaigns #Minorities

I have a record that I'm so very, very proud of, and no campaign is going to take that away.
-- Charles Rangel

#Campaigns #Records #Proud

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
-- Charley Reese

#People #Campaigns #World

When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.
-- Chelsea Clinton

#Father #President #Campaigns

Remember, at the end of the day [election] campaigns are always about the candidates.
-- Chris Christie

#The End Of The Day #Campaigns #Election

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

#Political #Different #Campaigns

Lead generation excels when a campaign is looking to capture a piece of factual intelligence that could never be modelled or predicted through profiling and sophisticated propensity algorithms.
-- Chris Cunningham

#Generations #Campaigns #Algorithms

The overall campaign launch is designed to break through the clutter and reach out to consumers. At the end of the day, consumers are the ones who benefit from the convenience and value never before seen in a free checking account.
-- Chris Matthews

#The End Of The Day #Campaigns #Benefits

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 slogans that are used during political campaigns.
-- Christine Lagarde

#Political #Promise #Campaigns

It wouldn't do me much good to back somebody that won in Iowa if they can't carry on the campaign elsewhere.
-- Chuck Grassley

#Iowa #Campaigns #Elsewhere

I would not want to be a politician... Let me tell you this: If I was campaigning, and I go against my opponent and he started attacking my character, and I leap over the table and choke him unconscious, would that help my campaign?
-- Chuck Norris

#Character #Campaigns #Tables

I fully support the NOH8 campaign and all it stands for and am proud to be a part of it. But I stand by my husband's stance on DADT.
-- Cindy McCain

#Husband #Support #Campaigns

My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.
-- Claire McCaskill

#Jobs #Focus #Campaigns

I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that's why I have mostly kept quiet about gay marriage.
-- Clare Balding

#Gay #Gay Marriage #Campaigns

Almost any questions can be answered,cheaply, quickly and finally, by a test campaign. And that's he way to answer them - not by arguments around a table
-- Claude C. Hopkins

#Campaigns #Answers #Tables

We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community,
-- Coretta Scott King

#Community #Black #Campaigns

President Obama announced his re-election campaign, though it’s not really a surprise. He did all the things that make it official: He filed the paperwork, redesigned his website, and printed another fake birth certificate.
-- Craig Ferguson

#Fake #President #Campaigns

Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over!
-- Craig Ferguson

#Heaven #Campaigns #Mud

It is Veterans Day, when we honor everyone who served in all of the campaigns. We honor them with dignity and respect, and of course mattress sales and tire discounts.
-- Craig Ferguson

#Veterans Day #Honor #Campaigns

This is so weird. I saw the new John Kerry campaign commercial and he says, 'I'm John Kerry and I approve of this message - if I have one.'
-- Craig Kilborn

#Campaigns #Saws #Messages

By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.
-- Cynthia Payne

#Girl #Vices #Campaigns

It's hard to get lice out of your head, and there's no easy cure for shaking off campaign-based thinking, either.
-- David Berkowitz

#Thinking #Campaigns #Lice

My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.
-- David Frum

#Views #Campaigns #Donors

Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama's hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics of Israel and his voluntary membership in Reverend Wright's decidedly anti-Semitic church. Furthermore, his campaign website featured anti-Semitic posts.
-- David Limbaugh

#Israel #Church #Campaigns

Any concerns that Romney will adopt McCain's milquetoast campaign model are quickly diminishing.
-- David Limbaugh

#Campaigns #Concern #Mccain

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.
-- David Limbaugh

#President #Campaigns #Reason

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
-- David Ogilvy

#Baby #Campaigns #World

I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.
-- David Prowse

#Rights #Fundraising #Campaigns

I think when Fox News goes to the Megyn Kellys, the Bret Baiers, and people who don't have much experience who haven't covered campaigns, the result is sometimes you have these inane questions that come out and, frankly, waste everybody's time.
-- David Shuster

#Thinking #People #Campaigns

I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bill Clinton. There was always a point where you look in their eyes and they knew it was over. And there was never that point with Clinton. He never quit. He never gave up.
-- Dee Dee Myers

#Eye #Campaigns #Looks

In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They didn't buy his alleged concern for the middle class.
-- Dee Dee Myers

#Running #Class #Campaigns

It was clear to me that if we allowed the Freedom Ride to stop at that point, just after so much violence had been inflicted, the message would have been sent that all you have to do to stop a nonviolent campaign is inflict massive violence,
-- Diane Nash

#Campaigns #Messages #Violence

Rebut the negative, and the opposing campaign has not merely lost a skirmish, it has suffered almost irreparable damage. An effective rebuttal makes it hard for the campaign whose ad is destroyed to be believed about anything ever again.
-- Dick Morris

#Political #Negative #Campaigns

I'm so glad I didn't become a doctor, because I do more than any doctor can do. I am an administrator, a CEO, doctor, psychiatrist, an activist, a campaign funder. I think I did well.
-- Dikembe Mutombo

#Thinking #Doctors #Campaigns

If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.
-- Djimon Hounsou

#Fashion #Campaigns #Term

Climate change is "some kind of tricky campaign made up by some commercial structures to promote their business projects."
-- Dmitry Medvedev

#Climate #Campaigns #Global Warming

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.
-- Dominique de Villepin

#Campaigns #Outcomes #Politician

And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.
-- Donald Rumsfeld

#People #Campaigns #Care

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

#Vision #Campaigns #Opponents

You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign.
-- Donna Shalala

#Energy #Campaigns #Want

A lot of times when people are on campaigns, it can be like a movie set.
-- Doris Kearns Goodwin

#People #Campaigns

I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.
-- Ed Case

#Country #Hawaii #Campaigns

When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Morning #Volunteer #Campaigns

I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.
-- Ed Rendell

#Campaigns #Paper #Phases

For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.
-- Edward Kennedy

#Dream #Causes #Campaigns

The Obama campaign was smarter, quicker on their feet than the Clinton camp.
-- Edward Klein

#Feet #Campaigns #Clinton

Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC campaign against apartheid, which finally changed the balance of forces inside South Africa.
-- Edward Said

#Justice #Balance #Campaigns

Education campaigns ... may not be enough, at least not alone. If people have no incentive to avoid AIDS on their own, even if they know everything about the disease, they still may not change their behavior.
-- Emily Oster

#People #Campaigns #Incentives

History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.
-- Eric Alterman

#Military #Example #Campaigns

I am honored to be here as co-chair of President Obama's re-election campaign.
-- Eva Longoria

#President #Campaigns #Election

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.
-- Everett Dirksen

#Political #Campaigns #Politics

Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.
-- Fred Thompson

#Presidential #Chinese #Campaigns

During a campaign speech in Ohio, President Obama said, 'I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth'. So to be fair, he wants to take your silverware and spread it around.
-- Fred Thompson

#Ohio #President #Campaigns

Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.
-- Gail Collins

#Rejection #Campaigns #Faults

Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
-- Gail Collins

#Different #Campaigns #Calendars

Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the 'Phil Gramm for President' campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse.
-- Gail Collins

#Texas #Presidential #Campaigns

I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.
-- Gary Clark, Jr.

#Campaigns #Expected #Ads

Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism.
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Style #Degrees #Campaigns

Use Campaign link tagging labels all for specifying slight differences in content for split testing.
-- Georg Cantor

#Differences #Campaigns #Labels

Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's a much better way to do it. There could be a small amount of money given by every taxpayer to be dedicated to candidates.
-- George Hamilton

#Democracy #Would Be #Campaigns

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
-- George McGovern

#Identity #Campaigns #Cases

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.
-- George McGovern

#War #Campaigns #Persian

It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.
-- George Monbiot

#People #Campaigns #Austerity

Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and the Russian campaign of anti-gay propaganda.
-- George Packer

#Gay #Games #Campaigns

The terrorists know that the outcome will leave them emboldened or defeated. So they are waging a campaign of murder and destruction. And there is no limit to the innocent lives they are willing to take.
-- George W. Bush

#Campaigns #Outcomes #Limits

So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters.
-- Gerald R. Ford

#Ideas #Campaigns #Littles

The case may very well be that Congress is willing to restrict campaign contributions because it has these privileges. It is true that incumbents normally get larger contributions than their challengers. The opponents at least get some money, but they do not have access to the perquisites of the incumbent.
-- Gordon Tullock

#Campaigns #May #Opponents

Maintain your rage and enthusiasm for the campaign for the election now to be held and until polling day.
-- Gough Whitlam

#Memorable #Enthusiasm #Campaigns

No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters.
-- Greta Van Susteren

#Campaigns #Looks #Process

What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.
-- Gunter Grass

#Skins #Germany #Campaigns

Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.
-- Harry Browne

#Liberty #Campaigns #Libertarian

I am suspending my presidential campaign.
-- Herman Cain

#Presidential #Campaigns #Presidential Campaign

I'm not running my campaign for the press. I'm running it for voters. I totally respect the press and what the press has to do.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Running #Campaigns #Voters