“When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.” MayTwoGovernmentPoliticalPoliticsPayMillionsDollarsCampaignsPresidentialMillion DollarsMetamorphosisPresidential Campaign Author:John W. Gardner
“Increasingly, campaigns have become narcotics that blur our awareness of problems long enough to elect the lawmakers who must deal with them.” LongEnoughProblemPoliticsDealsAwarenessCampaignsBlurNarcoticsLawmakers Author:Kathleen Hall Jamieson
“Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.” HeartPoliticsProcessDemocraticSpendingCampaignsUnlimitedDemocratic Process Author:Barry Goldwater
“The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.” KnowsHumansPoliticalPoliticsJusticeIssuesPolicyFootballEthicsStrategyHuman RightsCampaignsIdeologyHuman LifeDeath PenaltyCivilityPolitical Campaign Author:John Hickenlooper
“In the 2012 election, Obamacare, as it's called, and I'll be more polite - the ACA ...was a major issue in the campaign. I campaigned all over America for two months, everywhere I could. And in every single campaign rally I said, 'We have to repeal and replace Obamacare.' Well, the people spoke. They spoke, much to my dismay, but they spoke. And they reelected the President of the United States.” PeopleWellsSaidTwoStatesRealityAmericaPoliticalPoliticsPresidentCommunityLeadershipJusticeUnitedPartyHistoryUnited StatesDemocracyIssuesHuman NaturePolicyHealthMonthsMajorsEthicsConstitutionElectionStrategyUnityCampaignsIdeologyVotingSpokesPolitePolitical PartiesCivilityObamacareTwo MonthsDismay2012 ElectionAca Author:John McCain
“[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.” MenStatesHelpingWisdomRealityPoliticsProcessCommunityLeadershipJusticeMoneyRaceEducationMoralFamilyHistorySupportGenerationsHuman NaturePolicyStudentsHigherHusbandEqualBehaviorEthicsStrategyFinancialIndividualitySocial MediaCampaignsIdeologyGrantsAcademicExesLoanEqual RightsPursuedWebsiteScholarshipProfilePartisansHigher EducationPartisanshipStudent LoanWendyHigh ProfileEx HusbandFinancial Support Author:Liza Mundy
“If we don't get reform in campaign financing, then we can write this country off.” IfsWritingCountryPoliticsCampaignsReformFinancing Author:Frances Farenthold
“For all its considerable merits and inspirational principles, the American system is based upon a continuous uninterrupted process of election campaigns, stretching out year after year. Lost in the perpetual scramble is any long-term vision.” YearsLongPoliticsLostProcessTermVisionPrinciplesUnited StatesElectionCampaignsMeritLong TermPerpetualStretching Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.” PoliticalPoliticsHeardCoupleMassCampaignsThrownCircusBaptismPolitical Campaign Author:H. L. Mencken