Campaigns Quotes - Page 16

• Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain.

  Mr. Wrestling

  Rain, Political, Politics

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• I don't make any apologies for what I do on the campaign trail.

  George W. Bush

  Apology, Political, Politics

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• Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

  Walter Lippmann

  Football, Political, Useless

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.

  Alexander Suvorov

  Country, Military, War

  "Encyclopedia of Russian History" by James R. Millar, Soviet Union, (p. 1504), 2004.

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• As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who loves beautification where it is unnecessary is fit for punishment.

  Kato Kiyomasa

  War, Love Is, Punishment

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• Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Children, Humorous, Kids

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.722, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they are the targets of a massive and well-organized campaign of disinformation lavishly funded by polluters who are determined to prevent any action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming out of a fear that their profits might be affected if they had to stop dumping so much pollution into the atmosphere.

  Al Gore

  Determination, Believe, Atmosphere

  Al Gore (2017). “The Assault on Reason: Our Information Ecosystem, from the Age of Print to the Era of Trump”, p.296, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• And all of these together, as much as any campaign the Marine Corps has ever pursued, have brought an unrelenting, never-ceasing pride to all of us who have ever claimed the title of United States Marine

  Jim Webb

  Military, Pride, Marine

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• In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Fighting, Russia

  "War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943".

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• The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Shoes, Snow

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.547, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I now have a drawer full of hate letters from hundreds of elementary schoolchildren (with supportive cover letters from their science teachers) pleading with me to reverse my stance on Pluto. The file includes a photograph of the entire third grade of a school posing on their front steps and holding up a banner proclaiming, 'Dr. Tyson - Pluto is a Planet!'

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Hate, School

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• The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Lying, Marijuana, Law

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• It is particularly appropriate that we unveil this campaign on this first day of the annual international coastal clean-up effort. Beach cleanups are something each of us can do any time of the year. I'm proud to be participating in the cleanup efforts today and I encourage everyone to make the time for these types of activities.

  Ted Danson

  Beach, Ocean, Years

  "Ocean Ambassadors pledge drive launched". www.cnn.com. September 23, 1998.

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• We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons and daughters of the farm workers' revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking bread and justice.

  Cesar Chavez

  Daughter, Son, Justice

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• Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign.

  Milton Berle

  Life, Land, America

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• She is a 13-year-old girl who shares Amanda's name, and politely explained that she could not give up the website. Why? Because the younger Amanda plans to be president of the United States, and she's going to need the website for her campaign.

  Eva Longoria

  Girl, Badass, Giving Up

  Eva Longoria's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• You look at that Democratic debate. I had to laugh at what I saw Barack Obama do. I mean, in one week, he went from saying he is going to sit down for tea with our enemies, but then he's going to bomb our allies. I mean, he's gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week.

  Mitt Romney

  Mean, Laughing, Tea

  "The Tucker Show", www.nbcnews.com. August 7, 2007.

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• I'm from Hope, Arkansas, you may have heard of it. All I'm asking is, give us one more chance.

  Mike Huckabee

  Giving, Asking, May

  "Republican presidential debate" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2007.

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• They want the federal government controlling the Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Government, Political

  Bush's Campaign Speech at St. Charles, Missouri, edition.cnn.com. November 2, 2000.

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• Republicans are calling the Bush-Cheney ticket the 'Wizard of Oz' ticket. One needs a heart and the other needs a brain.

  Jay Leno

  Heart, Brain, Needs

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• Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

  Carly Fiorina

  Running, Business, Opportunity

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• Advertising is not a rifle; it is a shotgun, and any campaign featuring outdoor boards of a cartoon animal inevitably will catch children in its spray.

  Bob Garfield

  Children, Animal, Cartoon

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• Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.

  Harry Browne

  Liberty, Libertarian, Republican

  "Liberty A to Z". Book by Harry Browne (p. 151), 2004.

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• In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Victory, Objects

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.

  Bob McDonnell

  Senior, Daughter, Mother

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