Presidential Campaign Quotes

• There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

  Theodore White

  War, Usa, Presidential

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• ...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is a gross violation of the cherished value of political equality. At the same time, it does not protect the interests of small states or racial minorities, nor does it serve as a bastion of federalism. Instead the Electoral College distorts the presidential campaign so that candidates ignore most small states - and many large ones - and pay little attention to minorities.

  George C. Edwards III

  College, Two, Presidential

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• The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

  Hugh Sidey

  Presidential, Campaigns, Dry

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• I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Mexican Border, Southern

  Donald Trump's Announcement on Presidential Campaign Launch at the Trump Tower in New York City, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. June 16, 2015.

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• When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best.

  Donald Trump

  Illegal Things, People, Mexican

  "Divided Mexico unites against Trump: 'He has no respect for human beings'" by Jo Tuckman, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2015.

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• When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

  John W. Gardner

  Government, Two, Presidential

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• I joined presidential campaign in the summer, and I can tell you that all the contact by the Donald Trump campaign and associates was with the American people. We were fully engaged with taking his message to make America great again all across this country. That's why he won in a landslide election.

  Mike Pence

  Summer, Country, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I am suspending my presidential campaign.

  Herman Cain

  Presidential, Campaigns

  "Exclusive: Herman Cain's First Interview Since Suspending Campaign". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. December 8, 2011.

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• Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

  Jeff Goodell

  Presidential, Political, Campaigns

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• Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field.

  Joe Greene

  Winning, Presidential, Community

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• I work really long hours and work a lot and have done press tours and junkets, but there is nothing like a presidential campaign that I have experienced before...I think at one point we visited three different cities in one state in 12 hours. It's exhausting.

  America Ferrera

  Thinking, Cities, Long

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• All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it will be caused by religion. I count Prohibition as a part of religion, for it has surely become so in the United States. The Prohibitionists, seeing all their other arguments destroyed by the logic of events, have fallen back upon the mystical doctrine that God is somehow on their side, and that opposing them thus takes on the character of blasphemy.

  H. L. Mencken

  Character, Political, Presidential

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• In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind of President you'll be. You can't keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can't keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Running, Lying, Talking

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• Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

  Mark McKinnon

  Suicide, Marine, Hostage Crisis

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• I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.

  James L. Buckley

  Afterlife, Presidential, Campaigns

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• We've seen it in the last U.S. presidential campaign 2016: both sides were trading graphs and circulating data visualizations to make their point. So the political establishment is waking up to the power of a good graph as well.

  David Mccandless

  Presidential, Political, Wake Up

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• During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

  Al Sharpton

  Christian, Presidential, Campaigns

  "Sharpton: Sexually-based issues dividing black churches" by Al Sharpton, www.cnn.com. October 20, 2006.

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• When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

  Dee Dee Myers

  White, Volunteer, House

  "What if women ruled the world?" by Dee Dee Myers, www.today.com. February 23, 2008.

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• As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.

  Dan Rather

  Presidential, Political, Covering

  "Dan Rather: 'Quote approval' a media sellout" by Dan Rather, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2012.

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• I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.

  Patrick Stewart

  Stars, Couple, Past

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• The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

  Juan Williams

  Winning, Presidential, Political

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• Sen. Joe Biden, on the day of announcing his candidacy for president of the United States, called Barack Obama the first mainstream African-American who is articulate, bright, and . . . clean. I think we've seen the shortest presidential campaign in history.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, Presidential, African American

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• You're a trivial part in a trivia game.
  Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign?
  Like Ross Perot? He lost it though...
  But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!

  Aceyalone

  Rap, Games, Hip Hop

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• When I hit the skins they all say, 'Damn Kane...
  You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!'

  Big Daddy Kane

  Rap, Hip Hop, Presidential

  Song: How U Get a Record Deal?, Album: Looks Like a Job For...

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• I think that the media is as divided on this issue [of gay marriage] as the Obama family — which is to say not at all. And so he’s never going to get negative coverage for this....When you have almost the entire media establishment on your side on an issue in a presidential campaign, it’s very hard to lose politically.

  Mark Halperin

  Gay, Thinking, Your Side

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