“I think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].” ThinkingWayCampaignsPresidentialOutrageousPresidential Campaign Author:John Lewis
“Donald Trump's presidential campaign has been getting a lot of questions about his wife .” Has BeensWifeTrumpCampaignsPresidentialPresidential Campaign Author:Audie Cornish
“You can be guaranteed a story on the presidential campaign is gonna lampoon the Republican candidate in every one of those news agencies.” StoriesRepublicanNewsCampaignsPresidentialAgencyCandidatesPresidential Campaign Author:Rush Limbaugh
“During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to roll back government regulations.Trump plans to nominate fast food executive Andrew Puzder to head the Labor Department and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the EPA. If confirmed, the two men would signal a sharp break from the policies of the [Barack] Obama administration.” IfsMenTwoGovernmentBreakPlansPolicyTrumpLaborCampaignsAdministrationBarackPresidentialDepartmentExecutivesRegulationSignalsAttorneyFast FoodAndrewOklahomaPresidential CampaignGovernment RegulationEpa Author:Rachel Martin
“How is it possible that a process can be democratic when it comes by way of money? If there is money then it can be elected a senator, it can be elected a representative. Do you know how much it cost to be elected president of the United States? The amount has reached, billions of dollars, 2 billion, 3 billion, 4 billion dollars, that's how much a presidential campaign costs. How much does a senatorial campaign cost? It costs 80 to 90 million dollars; or the campaign of a representative, 40 to 50 million. Is that really a democracy?” IfsKnowsWayDoeStatesProcessPresidentUnitedMillionsUnited StatesKnow HowDemocracyAmountCostDollarsDemocraticBillionsCampaignsPresidentialDo You KnowRepresentativesSenatorsMillion DollarsPresidential Campaign Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“The presidential campaign was oriented toward the way we elect the presidency, Electoral College, not the popular vote. The popular vote doesn't matter. This is not a direct democracy. We have a representative republic, and the popular vote doesn't matter and it never has, by design.” DemocracyDesignCollegeDirectVotePresidentialPresidential Campaign Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In U.S. elections, the term "October surprise" has come to mean an event in the closing weeks or days of a presidential campaign that could affect or even alter the outcome.” MeanTermWeekElectionSurprisePresidentialOctoberPresidential Campaign Author:Alison Stewart
“Donald Trump can't even handle the rough and tumble of a presidential campaign. He loses his cool at the slightest provocation. When he has gotten a tough question from a reporter, when he is challenged in a debate. When he sees a protester at a rally. Imagine, if you dare imagine, imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis. A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons. And in the end, it comes down to what Donald Trump doesn't get, America is great because America is good.” MenRealImagineOfficeToughCrisisDareDebatePresidentialRoughNuclear WeaponsTweetPresidential Campaign Author:Hillary Clinton
“It doesn't need to be deep and it doesn't need to be a 65-point plan, but just to give some concrete examples of how this economy is going to work for the people that feel right now it's not working for them, and then finally to get to central tension of this campaign. This is a presidential campaign where you have Americans now who want to see change. And Hillary Clinton is the status quo. How can she be both status quo and change?” PeopleGivingEconomyClintonPresidentialTensionConcreteStatus QuoGoing To WorkPresidential Campaign Author:Amy Walter
“Did I meet with people that were Russian? I'm sure, I'm sure I did. But none that were set up. None that I can think of at the moment. And certainly none that I was representing the presidential campaign in any way, shape or form.” PeopleThinkingMomentsPresidentialPresidential Campaign Author:Donald Trump, Jr.
“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.” PeopleCountrySummerElectionPresidentialPresidential Campaign Author:Mike Pence
“Why would there be any contacts with Russian between the presidential campaign? This is all a distraction, and it's all part of a narrative to delegitimize the election and to question the legitimacy of this presidency. The American people see right through it.” PeopleElectionPresidentialDistractionPresidential Campaign Author:Mike Pence
“The whole straight talk thing, which John McCain kind of turned into a slogan at one point in one of his presidential campaigns, what that is, is a symptom of somebody who has no time for messing around. Because he`s trying to get stuff done constantly.” TryingKindDonePresidentialSlogansMccainPresidential Campaign Author:Rachel Maddow
“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.” PoliticalWake UpPresidentialTradingVisualizationPresidential Campaign Author:David Mccandless
“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.” FirstsHouseWhiteLevelsInfluenceOne DayAccessCampaignsPlentyPresidentialWhite HouseFewerVolunteerJuniorsEnvelopesPresidential CampaignWalter Mondale Author:Dee Dee Myers
“When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.” IfsWorldFirstsImportantPlayHappensHouseWhiteRolesMinutesChangedBillsPressesClintonCampaignsPresidentialChanging The WorldWhite HouseSecretaryChanged My LifePresidential Campaign Book:Why Women Should Rule the World Source: Why Women Should Rule the World
“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.” WantKindPoliticalNewsAccessCampaignsPresidentialCandidatesDelusionCoveringCoverageNothing NewBargainingPresidential CampaignNews Coverage Author:Dan Rather
“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.” WantPoliticsDutyConsequenceQuittingCampaignsBudgetsPresidentialDryCombatPerpetualReportersThunderClashAnalyzingLegionPresidential CampaignElectoral Process Author:Hugh Sidey
“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.” Has BeensPastGuyForceStarsWeekCoupleDown AndFollowingCampaignsPresidentialFedsDozenEpisodesPresidential Campaign Author:Patrick Stewart
“Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.” KnowsFactsInvolvedCampaignsFinanceChinesePresidentialScandalPresidential CampaignCampaign Finance Author:Fred Thompson
“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.” StatesTodayPoliticalTurnsWinningVoteElectionStrategyExtremesCampaignsThese DaysPresidentialClassicCandidatesPresidencyRemindersStraight UpPresidential CampaignPolarizationAmerican Elections Author:Juan Williams
“I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I'm not a fighter.” HurtMy FamilyCampaignsFighterPresidentialDistractionPresidential Campaign Author:Herman Cain
“...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.” LittlesDoeTwoStatesPoliticalValuesInterestPayAttentionCenturyCollegeProtectBuiltArgumentSeriesCampaignsPresidentialCandidatesMinoritiesSupporterGrossViolationPremisesPresidential CampaignFederalismElectoral CollegePolitical Equality Author:George C. Edwards III
“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.” ThinkingFirstsStatesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesCleanCampaignsBarackAfrican AmericanPresidentialMainstreamBidenPresidential CampaignAnnouncingCandidacy Author:Jay Leno
“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'!” GamesLostAimHip HopRapBillionsCampaignsPresidentialPresidential CampaignTrivia Author:Aceyalone
“When I hit the skins they all say, 'Damn Kane... You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!'” SkinsHip HopRapCampaignsPresidentialDamnPresidential Campaign Author:Big Daddy Kane
“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.” ThinkingHardSidesLosesIssuesMediaGayNegativeCampaignsPresidentialDividedEstablishmentGay MarriageCoverageYour SidePresidential Campaign Author:Mark Halperin
“During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.” ChristianAffectionCampaignsPresidentialPresidential CampaignChristian Right Author:Al Sharpton
“The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.” WantRealHandsSeemsGovernmentTruthCareRunningFightingPlansCitizensTruth IsAverageCampaignsAdministrationHealth CarePresidentialBullyingBullyFistsAmerican CitizensAcornsPresidential CampaignReal TruthAnti Bullying Author:Jon Voight
“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.” MightInvolvedCurrentsCampaignsDebatePresidentialEducateAfterlifeControversyOngoingFinancingPresidential Campaign Author:James L. Buckley
“I am suspending my presidential campaign.” CampaignsPresidentialPresidential Campaign Author:Herman Cain
“There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.” WorldWarCampaignsPresidentialExcitementUsaAmerican PresidentPresidential Campaign Author:Theodore White
“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.” WantKindRunningLyingPresidentChallengesTalkingWhat You WantCampaignsDebatePresidentialBe YouRunning AwayKeep RunningPresidential Campaign Author:Nicolas Sarkozy
“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.” StatesCharacterSeemsPoliticalReligionSidesUnitedUnited StatesSeeingEventsArgumentLogicCampaignsDoctrineDestroyedPresidentialFallenBitternessMysticalOpposingProhibitionBlasphemySeersPresidential Campaign Author:H. L. Mencken
“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.” BigsWinningCommunityLevelsFieldsTvsElectionAvailableCampaignsLocalsPresidentialPlaying FieldsCan't WinGrassrootsYou Can WinPresidential Campaign Author:Joe Greene
“Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.” PoliticalObviousCampaignsPresidentialCoalPolitical PowerPresidential Campaign Author:Jeff Goodell
“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.” ThinkingLongDifferentStatesDoneThreeHoursCitiesPressesCampaignsPresidentialExhaustingReally LongLong HoursPresidential Campaign Author:America Ferrera