Campaigns Quotes

If my wife hears one more report that I'm joining Hillary's campaign I'm going to have to go in the Pundit Protection Program.

The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality.

Our campaigns have always been based on what we consider music icons that transcend generations and they're not of the moment - they continue to evolve.

I think Donald Trump is the best person for the job. It comes back to redemption campaign rhetoric. They all say that stuff.[Barack] Obama and [Hillary] Clinton said that about each other.

But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.

The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.

Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.

The [Donald] Trump campaign turned on a dime instantly as soon as those WikiLeaks dumps started.

We do have evidence the [Donald] Trump campaign was working to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue.

What was particularly impressive by the [Donald] Trump campaign at the time is how they were so organized around the WikiLeaks stuff.

Who knows if John McCain could have won that presidential campaign [2008] in any circumstances when George W. Bush the outgoing Republican president had a 22 percent approval rating.

George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates - except for Dean and Kucinich - are campaigning.

These attacks prove one thing for certain: the liberal establishment is desperate to keep leaders like me out of office, and we are sure to hear more wild, dishonest smears during this campaign.

I am incredibly proud of the many journalists I have worked with throughout my career and the great campaigns that we have fought and won.

When I am the candidate, I run the campaign.

Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.

I wouldn't say I was part of an anti-war campaign.

Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.

Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.

Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.

He [Donald Trump] is the one who got him [Barack Obama] to finally produce the birth certificate. Hillary Clinton's campaign first raised this issue. He picked this up from Hillary Clinton.

The wall is going to to take a while. Obviously [Donald Trump] is going to build it.It's a campaign promise; he's not going to break a campaign promise.

I think people are exaggerating the fears of a Donald Trump presidency because they're coming off a campaign where they're very disappointed.

I was always responsible for everything in my campaign.

The point is Hillary Clinton's campaign is the first one to ask about Barack Obama legitimity because all she does is engage in negative campaigning against Barack Obama and against Donald Trump.

Every liberal on the campaign trail has a plan to deliver free, socialized medicine, but no country on earth, folks, can possibly pay for every test for everybody without going bankrupt.

Strategizing how to use it, how to promote it, how to use it as a campaign aid? I can't find any reference to [climate change].

There was no civility, there was no sophistication, there was nothing but raw resentment and anger on the part of the Hillary [Clinton] campaign staff.

I would love for Hillary's [Clinton] massive ad campaign to be pointless and worthless. I would love for it to bomb out.

This woman [Hillary Clinton] is as steeped and deep inside the establishment as anybody in this campaign.

[Bill] Clinton remained in campaign mode the first years of his first term.

It's a strategic thing to be in permanent campaign mode.

Being in permanent campaign mode allows you to never stop the process of destroying your opponents.

You can be guaranteed a story on the presidential campaign is gonna lampoon the Republican candidate in every one of those news agencies.

Donald Trump has been mischaracterized, misdiagnosed, his character has been assaulted from the get-go by both Republicans and the Hillary Clinton campaign.

A primary campaign can get very intense and times nasty. But it's never going to be quite as vicious as between-parties rivalry.

It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

The civilities of the great are never thrown away.

Sweat is my sanity. During the campaign, the days never went as well if I couldn't get out there and sweat.

The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.

In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.

There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a similar fear of offending.

[Campaign sign when running for Congress in 1967:] Vote for me or I will hold my breath until I turn blue.

I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.

I don't care if you've just won an Oscar, you still have to campaign for parts.

There is not a well-funded campaign among scientists to say, "Look, here's the evidence. You can read it yourself. Here are the facts. We're not making this up."

How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns.

You cannot build a grass-roots campaign unless you are connecting with people.

We are seeing Republicans uniting behind this [presidential] campaign [2016].

I think that is why we're seeing conservatives uniting behind our campaign, because I have a proven record as a consistent conservative of standing up to Washington and fighting for the constitution.