Campaigns Quotes - Page 34

• An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy country.

  Bill Vaughan

  Country, Presidential, Voting

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• In order to get around the $500 cap, it's common knowledge that either potential candidates or public officials simply create these organizations, accumulate large sums of money which are then used in support of their campaign or to contribute to their campaign. They were trying to close that loophole.

  Bill Vaughan

  Order, Organization, Support

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• Grover Cleveland declined to participate in character attacks on Blaine . When presented with papers which purported to be extremely damaging to Blaine, he grabbed them, tore them up, flung the shreds into the fire, and decreed, "The other side can have a monopoly of all the dirt in this campaign.

  Grover Cleveland

  Character, Fire, Cleveland

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• A primary campaign can get very intense and times nasty. But it`s never going to be quite as vicious as between-parties rivalry.

  Ruth Marcus

  Party, Nasty, Intense

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Class, Greed

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• MAC allowed me to have complete freedom on the collaborations—from the shades, the look-and-feel, to the campaign visuals. I have to admit that the visual aspect of the collection excites me most. For designers, we care about the photographs much more than a Ferrari.

  Philip Treacy

  Ferrari, Collaboration, Looks

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• The Supreme Court dealt a huge blow, overturning a 100-year-old precedent that basically corporations couldn’t give directly to political campaigns. And everyone is up in arms because they don’t like it. The Federal Election Commission can’t do anything about it.

  Lois Lerner

  Blow, Years, Giving

  House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, www.washingtonpost.com. March 6, 2014.

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• We've got a national campaign by drug legalizers, in my view, to try and use medicinal uses of drugs and legalization of hemp as a stalking horse to get in under the radar screen.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Horse, Views, Drug

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• Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Book, Design, Example

  "The Panda's Thumb". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Double Trouble", pp. 38-40, 1980.

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• [Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Moving, Order, Done

  December 09, 1970 Phone call with Gen. Alexander Haig, quoted in National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 123,

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• George W. Bush has a new campaign slogan: "A reformer with results." I don't know what it means [but] I think it's better than his old campaign slogan: "A dumb guy with connections.

  David Letterman

  Mean, Thinking, Guy

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• The senator got so tired on the campaign trail that he started kissing hands and shaking babies.

  David Letterman

  Baby, Tired, Kissing

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• We need to shut down this Gitmo prison? Well, don't shut it down - we just need to start an advertising campaign. We need to call it, 'Gitmo, the Muslim resort.' Any resort that treated people like this would have ads all over the 'New York Times' trying to get people to come down and visit for some R&R, for some rest and relaxation.

  Rush Limbaugh

  New York, People, Relaxation

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", June 14, 2005.

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• Donald Trump has a great campaign slogan: 'A complex world demands complex hair.'

  David Letterman

  Hair, World, Demand

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• It is always disagreeable to take stands. It is always easier to compromise, always easier to let things go. To many women, and I am one of them, it is extraordinarily difficult to care about anything enough to cause disagreement or unpleasant feelings, but I have come to the conclusion that this must be done for a time until we can prove our strength and demand respect for our wishes. We cannot even be of real service in the coming campaign and speak as a united body of women unless we have the respect of men and show that when we express a wish, we are willing to stand by it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Men, Feelings

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1982). “Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends”, Doubleday Books

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• We are suffering a national defeat comparable to any lost military campaign, and what is more, it is self- inflicted? It is about time that we pulled our fingers out? The rest of the world most certainly does not owe us a living.

  Prince Philip

  Military, Self, Suffering

  1961 Speech to British industrialists, London, 17 Oct.

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• The idea that emotion can be separated from sex is a Christian illusion, one of the most ingenious but finally unworkable strategies in Christianity's ancient campaign against pagan nature.

  Camille Paglia

  Christian, Sex, Ideas

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Attitude, Real, Movement

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.271, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In the name of Israel's God, if every man would do right, and when he has done what he knows is right, then stops till he knows what next, there never would be a jar in the camp. And I defy the man to come forward that ever led so large a people in such difficult and trying circumstances, in so much peace, as I have led this people during this campaign, with the help of God and my brethren.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Names, Israel

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• I honor, we honor the service of John McCain, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine. My differences with him are not personal; they are with the policies he has proposed in this campaign.

  Barack Obama

  Differences, Accomplishment, Honor

  Democratic Nomination Victory Speech, delivered 3 June 2008, Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  People, Care, Precision

  "At the Pentagon". Donald Rumsfeld's speech at the news conference on the collapse of Saddam Hussein's government, the remaining resistance in Iraq and other subjects at the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, www.nytimes.com. April 10, 2003.

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• I would not want to be a politician... Let me tell you this: If I was campaigning, and I go against my opponent and he started attacking my character, and I leap over the table and choke him unconscious, would that help my campaign?

  Chuck Norris

  Character, Tables, Opponents

  "Huckabee Hates 'Huckabees' -- Chuck Norris'll Choke You Out!". Youtube video, BarelyPolitical.com Interview, www.youtube.com. December 5, 2007.

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• As a result of our [my campaign's] discussions and other interactions with gay and lesbian voters across the state, I am more convinced than ever that as we seek to establish full equality for America's gay and lesbian citizens, I will provide more effective leadership than my opponent [Ted Kennedy].

  Mitt Romney

  Gay, America, Citizens

  "Marriage Equality Opponent Mitt Romney To Gay People: 'I Don’t Discriminate'". Mitt Romney's letter to Log Cabin Republicans Club during 1994 United States Senate campaign, thinkprogress.org. January 8, 2012.

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• Can you let your son's body become the same temperature as your son's head before you turn this into a political campaign against the president? Could you do that?

  Glenn Beck

  Son, Political, President

  "The Glenn Beck Program", May 14, 2004.

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• It is really - one of the things in it that I heard yesterday in his testimony that I thought was disturbing was this - what did he call it? - a massive persuasion campaign. That sounded a little bit like Goebbels or Gore-bels.

  Glenn Beck

  Yesterday, Littles, Goebbels

  "Beck likened Gore to Nazi propagandist, let Inhofe distort his climate change testimony". "CNN Headline News" with Glenn Beck, www.mediamatters.org. March 22, 2007.

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