Campaigning Quotes - Page 2

• When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.

  Michel Martelly

  Past, People, Rupture

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• I really will never understand pushing back on comedians who are like, "I'm like a politician campaigning and shaking hands with these people. They're going to be okay."

  Jen Kirkman

  Hands, People, Comedian

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've been an Obama supporter since he announced he was campaigning. I was aware of him as a senator, but I wasn't as engaged as I probably should've been.

  Pete Wentz

  Obama Supporters, Should, Senators

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• I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

  Bristol Palin

  Book, Writing, Want

  "Bristol Palin's Solo Act". Interview with Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 26, 2010.

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• I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Country, Giving, Bobby Kennedy

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• 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

  "Huckabee Hates 'Huckabees' -- Chuck Norris'll Choke You Out!". Youtube video, BarelyPolitical.com Interview, www.youtube.com. December 5, 2007.

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• When campaigning, be swift as the wind; in leisurely march, majestic as the forest; in raiding and plundering, like fire; in standing, firm as the mountains. As unfathomable as the clouds, move like a thunderbolt.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Moving

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• dating is like campaigning: you don't reveal who you really are or what you're really up to until you get elected.

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  Dating

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• People would ask me how I could stand the long campaigning, how I could stand being charged with the responsibilities of a great nation, one of the most powerful and difficult jobs in the world.
  It wasn't any more difficult than picking cotton all day or shaking peanuts.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Jobs, Powerful

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• Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.

  Ronald Reagan

  Baseball, Political, Pastime

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• Hillary Clinton is campaigning in Iowa, virtually going door to door to every home in Iowa. Jehovah's Witnesses finally got fed up and said, 'Get lost. Get out of here!'

  David Letterman

  Home, Doors, Iowa

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• Remember when Obama was campaigning? Didn't he say he was going to close Guantanamo Bay? Didn't he say that? Apparently, he just meant for renovations.

  Jay Leno

  Remember, Renovation, Guantanamo Bay

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• I'm concerned about the negative aspect of political campaigning in american nation, which is a new phenomenon. When I ran for president against Gerald Ford and later against Ronald Reagan we never referred to each other except as 'my distinguished opponent'. And had we criticised personally our opponent it would have been political suicide, we would have been castigated and condemned for it.

  Jimmy Carter

  Suicide, Political, President

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• There's all this talk about Arnold Schwarzenegger. Well, you know where he is now? Visiting Mexico, which I think means that he is definitely going to run for governor. Arnold is smart. He's in Mexico campaigning with the very people who'll be living here by election time.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Smart, Mean

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• I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support.

  Tony Benn

  Party, Thinking, Years

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• I'd like the campaigning to be about all the things they're not going to do. Just tell me what you're not going do! Don't tell me what you're going to do. Just say "I'd really like to do solar energy but I'm not going to be able to. I really want to dig holes everywhere in the country but I really won't be able to do it because people seem to think that maybe my water will be screwed up."

  Lewis Black

  Country, Thinking, Water

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.

  Mary Cheney

  Wyoming, Retail, Done

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• USA Today reports that the number of death row executions this year has hit a 35-year low. They attribute that to DNA evidence clearing more people and the fact that Rick Perry has been on the road campaigning.

  Jay Leno

  Dna, Years, Usa

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• For me, respect is an extremely important political term. Since I began campaigning, it has been at the heart of each of my speeches. Many people have the feeling that politicians aren't paying a sufficient amount of attention to them. And then, when the refugees arrived on top of all problems, there was a feeling: You do everything for them, but nothing for us. This mixture of frustration and fear has led to this reaction. That is why it is so important to show these people: We respect you.

  Martin Schulz

  Heart, Frustration, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.

  Karl Rove

  Race, Style, Elements

  "Karl Rove Calls Out Stupid Journalists Who Believed the Worst About Him". www.newsbusters.org. March 8, 2010.

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• Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.

  Hafez Ibrahim

  Rights, Death Penalty, Awareness

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• I loved campaigning for Obama.

  Kate Walsh

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I heard you're campaigning on my behalf." He walked over to me. "That wouldn't be because you'd miss me too much if I were gone,would it?" "Don't be absurd," I scoffed. "I don't condone murder, even for people like you." "People like me,huh?" He cocked an eyebrow. "You mean devilishly handsome, debonair young men who come to sweep rebellious princesses of their feet?" "You came to kidnap me, not sweep me off my feet," I said,but he waved his hand at the idea. "Semantics.

  Amanda Hocking

  Princess, Mean, Men

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.298, Pan Macmillan

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• I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told me that they were waiting for the next tax increase before they started growing their business. I've never met a single job creator who's ever said to me I can't wait until government raises taxes again so I can go out and create a job.

  Marco Rubio

  Jobs, Florida, Government

  "Sen. Rubio: 'We Don't Need New Taxes, We Need New Taxpayers'". www.realclearpolitics.com. July 7, 2011.

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• Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.

  Richard Stallman

  Inevitable

  "Cloud Computing Is a Trap, Warns GNU Founder Richard Stallman". Interview with Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2008.

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