Political Campaign Quotes - Page 2

• Usually I just let my songs do the talking. As a matter of fact I have long had an aversion to celebrities endorsing politics, and in some cases even other causes. I wonder about their motives. And I have to admit when celebrities get involved in political campaigns I tend to get a little bit sarcastic about it.

  John Fogerty

  Sarcastic, Song, Talking

  Source: www.citypages.com

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• Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.

  Teresa Heinz

  Real, Ideas, Political

  "Teresa Heinz" by Julia Turner, www.slate.com. December 11, 2003.

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• What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false. For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Effort, Political

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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• We saw images and ideas from white supremacists literally shared from political campaigns showing up in the Twitter feeds of major news organizations. We saw it in our political rallies as well.

  Jonathan Greenblatt

  Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Fun, Political

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Religious, Political, Atheism

  Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.211, Northwestern University Press

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• It was amazing to see Donald Trump on the night before election, who had been describing Hillary Clinton as crooked and corrupt, in a matter of a moment, was describing her as a fine and dedicated public servant, once he had won the election. So, there was a kind of barbarism all the way around, I think, in this political campaign, in which the issues really were boiled down to very small sound bites.

  Betsy McCaughey

  Night, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People get together and they donate to organizations so that a pile of money can be used to create a message that can be broadcast en masse as part of the a political campaign. They are the lifeblood of Hillary Clinton campaign, the banks and all these big time rich people from Hollywood and Silicon Valley are the mother's milk of her campaign. They are the money. She just doesn't want Donald Trump to have it or any other Republican to have it or any average citizen to be able to bundle his money with other people's money and create an ad or a campaign.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Political, Together

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The months of political campaigning have given us vivid reminders that women's rights are under constant assault all over the globe. Tragically even the church has some self-examination to do, where often women are perceived as a threat or viewed as temptresses.

  Carolyn Custis James

  Political, Church, Threat

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

  John Hickenlooper

  Football, Issues, Justice

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• I've repeatedly seen the anti-Russian card played during domestic political campaigns in the States. I think that it's a very short-sighted approach. It seems to me that it doesn't fully meet the level of responsibility that lies on the shoulders of the U.S. I think that all this should be more dignified, calm and more balanced.

  Vladimir Putin

  Lying, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Really, running an underdog, insurgent political campaign against an opponent many folks think cant be beat, and going out and meeting folks and talking about your ideas for America and Washington, is a lot of fun and a real privilege.

  Michael Baumgartner

  Running, Fun, Real

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• I think one of the core ideas in America has always been conversation and being able to question our systems of government, and being able to dictate our own communities and how we want this country to work. And I feel like we're losing part of that because of the way that even our current political campaign is centered more around celebrity than anything else, and so we're kind of losing conversation. We're still having conversations, but they seem to be more about like Donald Trump's hair and like memes of his face more than anything else.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Country, Thinking, Community

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Vermont is such a small state, and the most money that's ever been spent in the history of political campaigns there is $2 million. That number is going to be surpassed many times. Vermont remains a "cheap state" for the Republican National Committee. So putting $5 or $10 million into Vermont - compared to New York or California or Illinois - that's small potatoes.

  Bernie Sanders

  New York, Illinois, California

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 1, 2005.

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• There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity.

  Mike McCurry

  Political, Campaigns, Venture

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• It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Running, Cancer, Political

  Source: wwd.com

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• We in CNN have 27 reporters out in the field - from Alaska to Florida, and everywhere in between. 29 if you count the White House and the Hill. We are in every key state, in every key district and on the ground where key issues are playing out. Political campaigns' success is all about the ground game and CNN feels the same way about election coverage. Expect to see original reporting from all our remote locations all night long. On air and online.

  Andrew Morse

  Night, Long, House

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• [Donald Trump ] would make history in so many ways because he is a candidate who eschewed the traditional arts of political campaigns, including field organization, traditional advertising, debate preparation and policy knowledge.

  Mara Liasson

  Art, Organization, Political

  Source: www.npr.org

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• America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish.

  Robert Reich

  Country, America, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We need to put limits on how much an individual, group or business can spend on influencing an individual legislator or a whole set of legislators. Look at the vast sums that the NRA spends on getting all legislators to be soft on gun control. Legislators find it hard to refuse the NRA's largess when they need contributions to their political campaign wherever they can get them.

  Philip Kotler

  Gun, Political, Needs

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• [When a John McCain political campaign video that used her image] That wrinkly white-haired guy used me in his campaign ad, which means I'm running for President. So thanks for the endorsement white-haired dude, and I want America to know I'm like, totally ready to lead.

  Paris Hilton

  Running, Mean, White

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• Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.

  Walter Cronkite

  Giving, Political, Democracy

  "Free the Air Waves!" by Walter Cronkite, www.gothamgazette.com. November 4, 2002.

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• I pledge you, pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and of courage. This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms. Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Winning, Order, America

  Speech to Democratic Convention in Chicago, 2 July 1932, accepting nomination for presidency, in Public Papers (1938) vol. 1, p. 647

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• The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our cultural diversity (Chicanos, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans become indistinguishable), avoids our indigenous cultural heritage and links us directly with Spain. Worse yet, it possesses connotations of upward mobility and political obedience.

  Guillermo Gomez-Pena

  Diversity, Political, Spain

  Guillermo Gomez-Pena (1993). “Warrior for Gringostroika: Essays, Performance Texts, and Poetry”

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• I am absolutely disgusted that anyone would put thousands of America's boys at risk just to win a Political Campaign.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Winning, Boys, America

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