Campaigns Quotes - Page 36

• The best way to appreciate our political process is to volunteer for a campaign and support a candidate you believe in.

  Rob McKenna

  Believe, Volunteer, Appreciate

  Interview with Iman Baghai, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2012.

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• John Kerry has apologized for saying those who do not study hard and do their homework will get stuck in Iraq. Now, those that do not campaign well and are boring will end up stuck in the Senate.

  Jay Leno

  Iraq, Homework, Study

  "The Money Just Wasn't There for Kerry". www.politico.com. January 24, 2007.

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• John Kerry went duck hunting and he's doing that to fulfill his campaign pledge to hunt down the ducks and kill them wherever they are! Kerry did pretty well; he came back with four ducks and three Purple Hearts.

  David Letterman

  Heart, Hunting, Purple

  "Trail Tales: Gore Returns to Florida". "Late Show" with David Letterman, www.foxnews.com. October 22, 2004.

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• Have you folks been following the controversy with John Kerry and his service in Vietnam and the Swift Boat campaign? It all took place in Vietnam and now it just won't go away. I was thinking about this - if John Kerry had just ducked the war like everybody else he wouldn't have this trouble.

  David Letterman

  War, Thinking, Going Away

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• John Kerry suspended his campaign for five days this week in honor of President Reagan. And right now, he's ahead in the polls. How's that make him feel? Disappears for a week and he's up in the polls. What else can he do now but go into hiding.

  Jay Leno

  Honor, President, Hiding

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• Bill Clinton has a brand new book coming out in a few months and the Democrats are worried that the Clinton book might upstage the Kerry campaign. I'm thinking, hell, day-old meat loaf could upstage that campaign.

  David Letterman

  Book, Thinking, Might

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• The campaign for the White House is heating up with John Kerry taking heat for throwing his Vietnam medals away, getting a $1000 haircut, and wearing a 1970s wig known as 'the Leno.' There are really two sides to this story. And America can't wait for Kerry to present both of them.

  David Letterman

  Two Sides, White, America

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• 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

  Saws, Messages, John Kerry

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• John Kerry is busy trying to raise money right now for his campaign. It was reported today that Kerry's hoping to raise $80 million before the Democratic convention. That's a lot of money. Yeah, Kerry has two ways to raise the $80 million: soliciting Democratic donors and going through his wife's purse.

  Conan O'Brien

  Two, Wife, Trying

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• The White House begun airing their TV commercials to re-elect the president, and the John Kerry campaign is condemning his use of 9/11 in the ads. He said, it is unconscionable to use the tragic memory of a war in order to get elected, unless of course, it's the Vietnam War.

  Jay Leno

  Memories, War, Order

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• Kerry has already begun his search for a running mate. They say that because John Edwards still has $50 million in campaign money, Kerry might pick him. Pick him? Hey, for $50 million, Kerry will marry him.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Hey, Might

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• Presidential campaign getting kind of ugly, did you hear about this? Yesterday, a 27-year-old woman came for to deny rumors that she had an affair with Democratic front-runner John Kerry. The woman added, 'I would never cheat on Bill Clinton.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Yesterday, Years, Presidential

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• Real movement in the Kerry campaign now. His poll numbers are moving, donations are moving, endorsements are moving. The only thing not moving is his hair.

  Jay Leno

  Real, Moving, Hair

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• It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Artist, People, Trying

  "James Vincent McMorrow: 'I like my own musical company'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2014.

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• Herman Cain has suspended his presidential campaign, but he has asked the Secret Service if they could continue to provide him protection, at least until his wife cools off.

  David Letterman

  Wife, Presidential, Secret

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• Personally, I hope he doesn't get out of the campaign. I need Rick Perry. I don't want to spend the next year trying to do jokes about Mitt Romney.

  Craig Ferguson

  Years, Trying, Needs

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• I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.

  Laurance Rockefeller

  Believe, Resources, Should

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• Candidates who win while spending less than their opponents still usually have to spend quite a lot. While not a surefire guarantor of victory, a large war chest -even if not the largest-is usually a necessary condition. Money may not guarantee victory, but the lack of it usually guarantees defeat. Without large sums, there is rarely much of a campaign, as poorly funded 'minor' candidates have repeatedly discovered.

  Michael Parenti

  War, Winning, Political

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• A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, "Stop trying to make me like you," and what a sobering and welcome smack in the face that statement was. Yet somehow, every day of my life is still a campaign for popularity, or better yet, a crowded funeral.

  John Waters

  Funeral, Trying, Faces

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.30, Macmillan

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• 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

  Paper, Phases, Speech

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• But because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected president, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured - perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this. So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again not what kind of church I believe in - for that should be important only to me - but what kind of America I believe in.

  John F. Kennedy

  Real, Believe, America

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Way, Youth

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• There is a concerted effort to keep you and me, you know, the people, away from what it [war] really looks like, 'cause when you're selling war, when it's such a big industry. What they don't tell you is the rest of it and the down side of it. And so obviously there is a lot of money and a lot of time and effort being spent on that campaign "perpetual war for perpetual peace".

  Henry Rollins

  War, People, Effort

  "Hard Travelin' With Henry Rollins: An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Jason Leopold, www.truth-out.org. August 27, 2012.

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• Ad campaigns are necessary for competition. But good PR educates people; that's all it is.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Competition, Educate

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• The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present campaign.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Retirement, Virginia, Office

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