Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are two ways of looking at campaign finance,

There are things that I thought would be a difference between us and all of a sudden I see my opponent has jumped over to the same place I am. This campaign is about ideas and vision and the experience to carry that out.

Antonin Scalia

Many times in the campaign I said a few things like that without thinking through the implications of what I was saying.

Senator Kerry's comments used for campaign fund-raising purposes are simply over the top, extremely inappropriate and factually incorrect.

Soldiers in Iraq have told me they don't want to be there. They want to come home. They have told us to step up our campaign of resistance to this government's war policies.

She's trying to use it as a campaign issue. I'm trying to use it, as mayor of the city, to try to get balance,

She should recognize that, and fulfill her pledge of gender parity. I think that is the campaign promise that will most shape her term in office.

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Howard Warren Buffett

When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless campaign for a very thankless position. And he did it because his mother had instilled in him, if you are someone who has the capacity to make a great change, you have the responsibility.

I'd love to do a big hair campaign for L'Oreal, and Prada would be great, too, obviously.

Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children with disabilities.

Geoff Davis

This campaign was special because we always kept the challenger mentality we had from the start. We managed to keep the against-all-odds, can-do spirit that kept us going when no one thought we could win.

Bob Schieffer

Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates - they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can't blame them for that.

Adlai E. Stevenson

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Nicolle Wallace

My husband saw me go through the 2008 campaign cycle. We did it together for Sarah Palin and John McCain. It ended disastrously, and afterward I really wanted to do something different, so I started writing novels, and I imagined a fictional female president in my head.

Nicolle Wallace

I wasn't the only one that saw Sarah Palin vacillate between glorious highs on the campaign trail - and, you know, while she was speaking and at the convention - to really troubling lows when she seemed stumped in interviews.

Nicky Oppenheimer

Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

Where are the people who lost their jobs or were denied housing? ... You've got to have a huge education campaign to tell people to go to the polls to fix a problem they don't think exists.

Today's contributors probably don't know that they may be giving to pay off a prior campaign debt.

Gareth Thomas

Today was very important for us. It's the start of a big campaign for us and we know this year will be much harder for us.

Beau Willimon

I was always a writer - working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV - that was always my goal.

Beau Willimon

Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.

James Harrington

We worked very hard to get our message out even though there were a lot of distractions. We kept on message and kept our message positive, ... The campaign starts tomorrow.

The Democrats are planning a slick, media-savvy campaign of smears and lies. We must have the resources to get the real story of Conrad Burns' service to Montana out there.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had a strategy not to target Alabama.

Alice Rivlin

It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying to be on the Fed. And remember, it doesn't pay very well, certainly by Republican standards.

There is a tendency over the past election campaigns of shrinking turnout and we are concerned about it.

Patrick Murray

Voter interest in the election is supposed to increase as the campaign progresses. Voters looking for a change from politics as usual are not particularly bowled over by Dough Forrester.

Karl Rove

I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.

The proliferation of signs diminishes our landscape and has become a kind of visual pollution. I personally find campaign signs obtrusive, so you won't be seeing my name plastered all over the village.

Chuck Todd

The hardest thing to do in politics is campaign as someone you aren't. People can spot an imposter from a mile away.

Carine Roitfeld

Most makeup campaigns are not in black and white.

We plan to by midsummer have a recruitment campaign going full swing and hope for the best.