Campaigns Quotes - Page 23

• My campaign is based upon the proposition that the answers to the problems which currently plague our cities, our towns, and our homes, are not to be found in the decisions in Washington. They are instead to be found in the hearts, minds and resources of our own people here at home.

  Jerry Springer

  Home, Heart, Cities

  Speech given to citizens in Cincinnati Ohio, Circa 1970.

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• The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy.

  Richard V. Allen

  Successful, Bridges, Administration

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• I think that the media is as divided on this issue [of gay marriage] as the Obama family — which is to say not at all. And so he’s never going to get negative coverage for this....When you have almost the entire media establishment on your side on an issue in a presidential campaign, it’s very hard to lose politically.

  Mark Halperin

  Gay, Thinking, Your Side

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• I fully support the NOH8 campaign and all it stands for and am proud to be a part of it. But I stand by my husband's stance on DADT.

  Cindy McCain

  Husband, Support, Proud

  Cindy McCain @cindymccain, twitter.com. November 13, 2010.

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• The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is - second only to American political campaigns - the most prominent and pernicious manifestation of anti-intellectualism in our time.

  Larry Laudan

  Ideas, Perspective, Political

  Larry Laudan (2012). “Science and Relativism: Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science”, p.10, University of Chicago Press

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• If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each leading to the next, but instead succumb to the idea that the capture of certain geographical points or the seizure of undefended provinces are of value in themselves, we are liable to regard them as windfall profits.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Ideas, Engagement

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (2007). “On War”, p.139, Oxford University Press, USA

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• No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Enemy, Firsts, Contact

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• Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep the farms and slaughterhouses in places that most people never visit; they execute huge marketing campaigns in an effort to make animal production look like a happy, nice, benign institution.

  Moby

  Powerful, Nice, Animal

  VegNews Interview, www.vegnews.com. December 1, 2008.

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• Lead generation excels when a campaign is looking to capture a piece of factual intelligence that could never be modelled or predicted through profiling and sophisticated propensity algorithms.

  Chris Cunningham

  Generations, Algorithms, Pieces

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• If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a whole agency to make a successful campaign.

  David Guerrero

  Children, Successful, It Takes A Village

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• Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. I wish to die at home. Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death.

  Genghis Khan

  Home, Wish To Die, Expectations

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• I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.

  David Talbot

  Dream, War, Teenager

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• The U.S. government alleges that for the past 45 years, the companies that manufacture and sell tobacco have waged an intentional and coordinated campaign of deceit.

  Janet Reno

  Lying, Past, Government

  "Justice Department sues big tobacco firms". www.cnn.com. September 22, 1999.

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• In the last few days, I have been the victim of a campaign of slander and shameful lies, a campaign which has deeply shocked and hurt me. Enough is enough.

  Dominique de Villepin

  Hurt, Lying, Deceit

  "French PM refuses to resign over scandal" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2006.

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• Education campaigns ... may not be enough, at least not alone. If people have no incentive to avoid AIDS on their own, even if they know everything about the disease, they still may not change their behavior.

  Emily Oster

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

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• The public's evaluation of the job George W. Bush is doing as president changed dramatically as a result of the horrific attacks of September 11 and his response in leading the country on a campaign against terrorism.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Country, Jobs, September 11

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• During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

  Questlove

  Wise, Thinking, Political

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• The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.

  John T. Flynn

  Victory, Groups, Dollars

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• Paris Hilton has launched a new champagne in a can called Rich Prosecco. For the ad campaign Paris posed wearing nothing but gold paint. That’s a unique way to cover up herpes.

  Chelsea Handler

  Unique, Paris, Gold

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• I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.

  Park Geun-hye

  People, Election, Never Forget

  "Park Geun-hye claims South Korea presidential victory" by Madison Park, Paula Hancocks, KJ Kwon, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2012.

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• I would say, as an entrepreneur everything you do - every action you take in product development, in marketing, every conversation you have, everything you do - is an experiment. If you can conceptualize your work not as building features, not as launching campaigns, but as running experiments, you can get radically more done with less effort.

  Eric Ries

  Running, Entrepreneur, Effort

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• Every liberal on the campaign trail has a plan to deliver free, socialized medicine, but no country on earth, folks, can possibly pay for every test for everybody without going bankrupt.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Medicine, Earth

  "REPORT: Limbaugh conservatives continue 75-year-old "socialized medicine" smear". www.mediamatters.org. March 5, 2009.

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• Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.

  Epictetus

  Character, Men, Long

  Epictetus (1967). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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• The big difference between animal liberation activists and other so-called 'terrorists' is the targets; no innocent victims are ever targeted in animal lib campaigns. If you are not abusing and exploiting animals, there is no need to fear for one's safety.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Differences, Safety

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• After forming a cadet corps of boys for assisting as noncombatants during a military campaign in 1900: We then made the discovery that boys, when trusted and relied on, were just as capable and reliable as men.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Military, Men, Boys

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