Campaigning Quotes - Page 4

• President Obama should stop campaigning and start working on creating jobs, start working on getting our GDP up, start working on strengthening our borders.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Gdp, Creating

  Donald Trump's Speech Responding To Assault Accusations, www.npr.org. October 13, 2016.

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• I am old school, I joined the gay liberation movement in 1972. If you had told me in 1972 that in the year 2009 I would be campaigning for the right to join the army or get married I think I would have started dating women at that time.

  Cleve Jones

  Old School, Army, Gay

  Source: www.bilerico.com

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• I was young. I was 23 or 24. I just wasn't a fan of the politics of campaigning - of going into that environment and competing and trying to get into the good graces of the writers.

  Simon Helberg

  Grace, Trying, Fans

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• President Trump ought to realize, he's not campaigning anymore. He's president. And instead of talking about how many people showed up at his inauguration, he ought to be talking about how many people are going to stay into the middle class and move into the middle class.

  Charles Schumer

  Moving, Talking, Class

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The Limbaugh Theorem is the way Obama gets away with no accountability for anything he's done is he never was perceived as governing. He was always as an outsider campaigning all the time against powerful forces trying to stop whatever it was he wanted to do.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Powerful, Accountability, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think most people would be surprised at the length of the day whilst you're campaigning and then the variety of things that you do and you're asked to do.

  Eric Abetz

  Thinking, People, Would Be

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I mean, you can agree or disagree with Iraq or Afghanistan, but by the way, now the great campaigning cause out there is the absence of intervention in Syria. And then in Libya, it's partial intervention. And that doesn't really explain why some countries that have literally nothing to do with the interventions in the Middle East end up getting targeted.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Mean, Iraq

  "Tony Blair Works To Define The Problem Of Islamist Extremism". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 25, 2016.

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• Gray Davis got some good news this week: the Clintons are out here in California campaigning for him. Actually, Hillary is campaigning for Davis, Bill is out here for Larry Flynt.

  Jay Leno

  California, News, Bills

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• Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.

  Beth Simone Noveck

  Technology, Democracy, Election

  "Evolving Democracy for the 21st Century" by Beth Simone Noveck, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

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• Drag for me is costume, and what I'm trying to do is, sometimes I'll go around and wear makeup in the streets, turn up to the gig, take the makeup off, do the show, and then put the makeup back on. It's the inverse of drag. It's not about artifice. It's about me just expressing myself. So when I'm campaigning in London for politics, I campaign with makeup on and the nails. It's just what I have on, like any woman.

  Eddie Izzard

  Makeup, Trying, Nails

  "Eddie Izzard, Force of Nature". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2014.

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• I would not ask anyone to vote for me based on my last name. I am certainly not campaigning to be president because my last name is Clinton.

  Bernie Sanders

  Names, President, Lasts

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• You really hope that people who want to be politically active aren't so disillusioned at this point. I do feel positive about what's happening. I think that with all of these movements, and this growing collective voice that's emerging, people are starting to come out of the kind of dazed state that they were in for so many years. But it's tough to know the best way to effect change now. Campaigning alone no longer seems to be the answer.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Thinking, Years, Voice

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Sadly most films only get exposure if they win an award or were in a festival, which is really difficult because those things cost money! Submitting your film to a festival or campaigning for an Oscar or a Golden Globe is very expensive. Most people don't know that, but all those events require a lot of money. If you have a small independent film, it's very hard to get the attention of people in those circles.

  Kate del Castillo

  Independent, Winning, Awards

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I am not one to generalize, but cartoonists, as a group, exhibit a level of social sophistication generally associated with pie fights. In high school, when the future lawyers were campaigning for class president, the future cartoonists were painstakingly altering illustrations in their history books so that Robert E. Lee appeared to be performing an illegal act with his horse.

  Dave Barry

  Horse, Book, School

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• A system that rewards politicians skilled at campaigning - which is the art of creating an illusion - and that puts hundreds of billions of coerced taxpayer dollars at the disposal of the winners will tend to attract men and women with a comparative advantage in manipulation.

  John Stossel

  Art, Men, Creating

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• Perhaps the most important reason to be skeptical of government inflation numbers is that the government, like a fox campaigning to guard a hen house, has many reasons to be disingenuous. As the world's largest debtor, the Federal Government is inflation's primary beneficiary.

  Peter Schiff

  Government, Numbers, House

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• I was sorry to see the News of the World go down, I think it was a great campaigning newspaper. Who can forget the News of the World's high profile campaign against child sex offenders which led to News of the World readers burning down the home of a paediatrician, throwing rocks at a pedalo, stamping on a centipede.

  Stewart Lee

  Sex, Children, Sorry

  "Carpet Remnant World". Comedy, 2012.

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• Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people raised in a faith-based culture will stick with their religion and be lost to science.

  Martin Rees

  Teacher, People, Lines

  "Martin Rees: Atheists should drop anti-religion campaigns" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2011.

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• When you say politics, you conjure a whole bunch of associations: elections, campaigning, debates, fundraising. None of this exists in Russia! We are still fighting not for election victories but for having elections at all.

  Garry Kasparov

  Fighting, Fundraising, Russia

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• The trade unions in the UK are campaigning around zero-hours contracts, which isn't about feminism, but it's a feminist issue. Women are affected by zero-hours contracts, and the recession has and is affecting women more than men.

  Rachel Holmes

  Zero, Men, Issues

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth thistles as soil erosion devastates formerly arable land and deserts overtake fertile farms. Rivers and the atmosphere are polluted thoughtlessly and we are fearful of the consequences of a depleted ozone layer and the devastation of the greenhouse effect. We are not quite at home in our world, and somewhere in each of us there is a nostalgia for a paradise that has been lost.

  Desmond Tutu

  Home, Rivers, Ozone

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• If you're campaigning against ObamaCare, but you're also having to defend yourself for closing the government, that seems to take away the asset from you.

  Ted Cruz

  Government, Obamacare, Assets

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• And Ralph Nader, God bless him, still out there campaigning. Ralph Nader said today he has set a record for the most campaign speeches given in one day. He gave 21 speeches in one day. Of course, we have to take his word for it, because of course, there are no witnesses.

  Jay Leno

  One Day, Campaigns, Records

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• New York congressmen have recently been plagued by a string of embarrassing scandals. Shirtless craigslist hunk Chris Lee, nonconsensual staff tickle monster, Eric Massa, naked texter Anthony Weiner, so this guy is now running to join those dubious ranks and win the Michael Grimm seat. And he`s campaigning on the promise that he`s too old to be too gross. And I`m not paraphrasing the campaign pledge.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, New York, Winning

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• I keep my distance from politics. Lots of money has been offered to me for campaigning over the years, and I have always refused. I used to be very politically aware and very opinionated, but I don't want to involve myself.

  Bipasha Basu

  Distance, Years, Want

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