Campaigns Quotes

• Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

  Oscar Ameringer

  Life, Witty, Art

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• What businesses really need is to build connections that last, connections that transcend a single product or marketing campaign, connections that span an extended period.

  Kim Garst

  Marketing, Connections, Needs

  Kim Garst (2015). “Will the Real You Please Stand Up: Show Up, Be Authentic, and Prosper in Social Media”, p.9, Morgan James Publishing

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• In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.

  Edmund Muskie

  Anger, Political, Littles

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• I think it's less risky for the Kerry campaign to embrace former President Clinton than it is to reject him.

  Stuart Rothenberg

  Thinking, President, Clinton

  "CNN Wolf Blitzer Reports", www.cnn.com. June 14, 2004.

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• Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it'll hurt the guy on the other side.

  Bob Schieffer

  Hurt, Thinking, People

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• So I went to George and told him I had the opportunity to become the figurehead of a government safety campaign, and he agreed to give me the week off and reschedule shooting!

  David Prowse

  Opportunity, Government, Safety

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• The revolution has been dubbed “The Orange Revolution,” orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government...

  Bob Schaffer

  Tired, Government, Color

  "Go Orange!". National Review Online Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.

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• The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Numbers, United States, Reform

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• 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.

  James L. Buckley

  Afterlife, Presidential, Ongoing

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• Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

  Patricia Ireland

  Winning, Principles, Waging War

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• By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.

  Cynthia Payne

  Girl, Vices, Done

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• Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.

  Laura Bush

  Dad, America, Enough

  "Laura Bush on U.S. Political Divide". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. August 3, 2004.

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• When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are.

  Mark Shields

  Running, Grateful, President

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• Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

  Sherrod Brown

  College, Years, Broken

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• Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.

  Ross Martin

  College, Firsts, Watches

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• I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.

  David Prowse

  Rights, Fundraising, Bigs

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• I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.

  Charles Schumer

  Education, Jobs, Simple

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• It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.

  Peter MacKay

  Leadership, Party, Ifs

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• I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

  James Longstreet

  Ideas, Fancy, Brilliant

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• There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

  Theodore White

  War, Usa, Presidential

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• I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell.

  Rosser Reeves

  Witty, Just Saying, Charming

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• Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

  Rich Lowry

  Political, Falsity, Political Campaign

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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

  Lasts, Months, Ready

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• When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.

  Ed Gillespie

  Morning, Volunteer, Lists

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• In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

  Patricia Ireland

  Winning, Roots, Goal

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