Best political & political-campaign Quotes

“I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns.”

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Author:Christine Lagarde

“I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level and have run campaigns or have been deeply involved in grass roots political campaigns and who have actual hands-on experience.”

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Author:Roy Romer

“In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

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

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Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for everybody involved in it.”

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Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“It's a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history.”

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Author:John McCain

“I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process.”

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Author:Walter Cronkite

“As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change.”

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Author:Adam Braun

“The Supreme Court dealt a huge blow, overturning a 100-year-old precedent that basically corporations couldn’t give directly to political campaigns. And everyone is up in arms because they don’t like it. The Federal Election Commission can’t do anything about it.”

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Author:Lois Lerner

“Can you let your son's body become the same temperature as your son's head before you turn this into a political campaign against the president? Could you do that?”

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Author:Glenn Beck

“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.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

“Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals. We look away from government for relief, because we know that force (legalized) invades the personal liberty of man, seizes upon the natural elements and intervenes between man and natural laws; from this exercise of force through governments flows nearly all the misery, poverty, crime and confusion existing in society.”

“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.”

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Book:PREJUDICES A SELECTION

Source: PREJUDICES A SELECTION

“The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith. They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people's money.”

Source: Minority Report

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

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Book:Ferraro: My Story

Source: Ferraro: My Story

“I believe in freedom of speech. And I believe that spending on political campaigns is a form of political speech that is protected under the constitution.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“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.”

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Author:Michael Baumgartner

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