Campaigning Quotes

• The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Adversity, Years, Weather

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• Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.

  Jesse Ventura

  People, Tuition, Pay

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.29, Villard

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• Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

  David S. Broder

  Trust, Years, Two

  Washington Post 18 July 1973, p. A 25

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• I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

  Patrick Stewart

  Good Luck, Hollywood, Roles

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• And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.

  Sibel Edmonds

  Responsibility, Past, Trying

  "Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds Calls Current 9/11 Investigation Inadequate". Interview with Jim Hogue, baltimorechronicle.com. May 7, 2004.

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• Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

  Rowan Williams

  Christian, Justice, Church

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• Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.

  Bill Maher

  War, Law, Usa

  Twitter post from Jun 13, 2013

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• What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.

  N. T. Wright

  Teaching, Writing, Caring

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• The cost of campaigning has skyrocketed in recent years because of the falloff in TV viewership. With only one-third as many people watching TV as did 20 years ago, politicians have responded by buying three times as many ads, driving the cost of campaigning to levels which only favored candidates can afford.

  Dick Morris

  Years, People, Watching Tv

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• There's a very big difference between campaigning and governing.

  Richard Stengel

  Differences, Bigs, Governing

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in this campaign which I am about to conduct, let him not refuse his services to the state, but come with me into Macedonia. I will furnish him with his sea-passage, with a horse, a tent, and even travel-funds. If anyone is reluctant to do this and prefers the leisure of the city to the hardships of campaigning, let him not steer the ship from on shore.

  Livy

  Horse, Sea, Cities

  Book 44, chapter 22. Reported in "Livy" by Alfred C. Schlesinger, vol. 13, p. 161, 1951.

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• My husband is absolutely opposed to any negative campaigning at all.

  Cindy McCain

  Husband, Negative, My Husband

  "NBC's Ann Curry: John McCain is Old, He's 71. Did I Mention He's 71?". "Today" with Ann Curry, www.newsbusters.org. May 8, 2008.

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• It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies.

  Pat Paulsen

  Baby, Kissing, Hands

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• I've never seen the kind of enthusiasm at the grassroots that I see campaigning with or for Donald Trump.

  Mike Pence

  Enthusiasm, Kind, Grassroots

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There's all this talk about Arnold Schwarzenegger. Well, you know where he is now? Visiting Mexico, which I think means that he is definitely going to run for governor. Arnold is smart. He's in Mexico campaigning with the very people who'll be living here by election time.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Smart, Mean

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• When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.

  Michel Martelly

  Past, People, Rupture

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• I really will never understand pushing back on comedians who are like, "I'm like a politician campaigning and shaking hands with these people. They're going to be okay."

  Jen Kirkman

  Hands, People, Comedian

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I turned 18, was the first time that I really started concentrating on politics. And I started doing so because I realized that in order to really create and generate change, it has to come from changing laws... so I started campaigning for Norman Lear's foundation, which was Declare Yourself.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Order, Law, Foundation

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• I feel like I am campaigning door to door. You just can't step out of a band like Brooks & Dunn and assume that it is just going to be business as usual. You have to work it. It does feel like a campaign where you would have Obama, Romney, or Newt beating the bushes right now. That's what I'm having to do.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Doors, Usual, Doe

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• I've been campaigning for 17 of the last 24 months. I'm ready to legislate and not campaign.

  John Y. Campbell

  Campaigns, Lasts, Months

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• You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning.

  Evan Bayh

  Running, Home, Years

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• I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it.

  Peter Jennings

  Eye, Thinking, Negative

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• We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.

  Hugh Sidey

  Politics, Blather, Deals

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• I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support.

  Tony Benn

  Party, Thinking, Years

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• Hillary Clinton is campaigning in Iowa, virtually going door to door to every home in Iowa. Jehovah's Witnesses finally got fed up and said, 'Get lost. Get out of here!'

  David Letterman

  Home, Doors, Iowa

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