Campaigns Quotes - Page 19

• But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.

  John McCain

  Believe, Expression, Long

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• Absolutely love the new campaign from the Optimum Population Trust: do your bit for addressing climate change by having fewer children - or even no children. The lifetime CO2 emissions of a UK citizen amount to 750 tonnes (the equivalent - apparently - of 620 return flights between London and New York), so the extra 10 million by which our population will rise between now and 2074 will, over their lifetimes, emit around 7½ billion tonnes of CO2..."births averted" is probably the most single most substantial and cost-effective intervention that governments could be using

  Jonathon Porritt

  New York, Children, Government

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• Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.

  Edward Abbey

  Government, People, Broken

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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• The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Finals, Birth Control

  "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda". "Birth Control Review", (p. 5), October 1921.

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• I am absolutely disgusted that anyone would put thousands of America's boys at risk just to win a Political Campaign.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Winning, Boys, America

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• There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Achievement, Presidential

  Response to letter sent by Theodate Johnson on September 13, 1960. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: The Arts", www.jfklibrary.org.

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• Want to hear a sad story about the Dukakis campaign? The governor of Massachusetts, he lost his top naval advisor last week. His rubber ducky drowned in the bathtub.

  Dan Quayle

  Want, Rubber, Lasts

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• I would like to have campaign spending limits...

  Mitt Romney

  Limits, Spending

  "Thompson Hits Romney on Campaign Finance Reform" by John Bentley, www.cbsnews.com. December 19, 2007.

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• In the political environment that exists today, the opposition research of the Obama campaign is looking for anything they can use to distract from the failure of the president to reignite our economy. And Im simply not enthusiastic about giving them hundreds or thousands of more pages to pick through, distort, and lie about.

  Mitt Romney

  Lying, Giving, Political

  "Romney Steadfast in the Face of Growing Calls to Release More Tax Returns". www.nytimes.com. July 18, 2012.

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• Everywhere I go on the campaign trail, I meet voters with a real thirst for a healthy discussion of the issues. Ultimately, people don't care whether an issue comes from the left or the right. What they want to talk about are ideas that lift America up and make us better. It's what I call 'Vertical Politics'.

  Mike Huckabee

  Real, Ideas, America

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• I think because I really didn't have a good strategy for my campaign. I didn't plan it the right way. ... As a candidate who was already so well known ... I don't think I ever said, 'Yes, you may have known me for eight years, but I don't take anything for granted. I have to earn your support.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Eight, Years

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• And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?

  Stephen Breyer

  Thinking, Benches, Way

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• The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left. What I object to on the right is the obsessive hatred, the bigotry, and the personal savaging of their opponents, all achieved through an echo chamber of talk radio, the Internet and Rupert Murdoch's media outlets. That kind of well-funded disinformation campaign has no analog on the left.

  David Brock

  Character, Echoes, Media

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• The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls' education and women's rights. So don't support Malala, support her campaign for girls' education and women's rights.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Rights, Support

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• I give it as my fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share; whereas, in less than two campaigns, we conquered a great country and a peace without the loss of a single battle or skirmish.

  Winfield Scott

  Country, War, Fall

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• These attacks prove one thing for certain: the liberal establishment is desperate to keep leaders like me out of office, and we are sure to hear more wild, dishonest smears during this campaign.

  Rand Paul

  Office, Leader, Desperate

  "Rand Paul On Civil Rights Controversy: I Shouldn’t Have Talked To Rachel Maddow" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• Free women and men everywhere must wage an incessant campaign so that these human values become a generally recognized and practised reality. We must regretfully admit that in various parts of the world this is not yet the case. Without those values and human rights the real peace of which we dream is jeopardized.

  Menachem Begin

  Dream, Real, Men

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• I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced the best was ahead of me.

  Ray Kroc

  Years, Optimism, Bladder

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.15, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The overall campaign launch is designed to break through the clutter and reach out to consumers. At the end of the day, consumers are the ones who benefit from the convenience and value never before seen in a free checking account.

  Chris Matthews

  Break Through, The End Of The Day, Benefits

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• Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Friends, Political, Tents

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 31 Oct. 1971

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• The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

  John James Ingalls

  Political, Politics, Golden

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• Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Games, Political, Police

  Misalliance (1914) p. 85

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• Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Political, Opinion

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.

  H. R. Haldeman

  Political, Toothpaste, Contests

  Quoted in Hearings Before the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities of the United States Senate: Watergate and Related Activities (1973).

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• There are no small steps in great affairs.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Political, Small Steps, Affair

  Jean François Paul de Gondi de Retz (1817). “Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz: containing, the particulars of his own life, with the most secret transactions of the French court and the civil wars”, p.394

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