Campaigns Quotes - Page 36

• Marco Rubio's presidential campaign has raised $40 million in the last week. When he heard that, Rubio said, 'Hey, any chance I can drop out of the race and just keep the 40 million?'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Race, Presidential, Hey

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• Rand Paul is officially running for president. He even revealed his campaign slogan, which is 'Defeat the Washington machine. Unleash the American dream.' It's hard to tell if he's running for president or doing an infomercial for Bowflex.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, Dream, President

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• Senator Rand Paul reflected on Mitt Romney's potential 2016 campaign and said, 'It's sort of what Einstein said, that the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.' When someone told him Einstein didn't actually say that, he said, 'In the words of Gandhi, 'My bad.''

  Jimmy Fallon

  Insanity, Different, Definitions

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• This week Biden said that he will decide on a potential 2016 presidential campaign by the spring or the summer. Then he said, 'Whichever comes first.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Summer, Spring, Presidential

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• A political action committee trying to raise money for a 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign is selling “Ready for Hillary” champagne glasses and Christmas ornaments. Because if one thing improves the holidays, it's drinking mixed with politics.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Drinking, Holiday, Glasses

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• It is Veterans Day, when we honor everyone who served in all of the campaigns. We honor them with dignity and respect, and of course mattress sales and tire discounts.

  Craig Ferguson

  Veterans Day, Honor, Dignity

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• Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over!

  Craig Ferguson

  Heaven, Mud, Election

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• What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false. For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Effort, Political

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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• The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith. They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people's money.

  H. L. Mencken

  Party, Office, People

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.209, Knopf

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• It is impossible not to be moved by the verve, courage and elan with Churchill attacked his last and ultimately invincible enemy, old age and infirmity. As in all his campaigns, he assailed his adversary with endless high spirits, expert advice, ample helpings of brandy and champagne, and the loving and long-suffering support of his wife.

  David Cannadine

  Long, Wife, Advice

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• Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Religious, Political, Atheism

  Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.211, Northwestern University Press

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• People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Morning, Jobs

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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• In contemporary society secular humanism has been singled out by critics and proponents alike as a position sharply distinguishable from any religious formulation. Religious fundamentalists in the United States have waged a campaign against secular humanism, claiming that it is a rival "religion" and seeking to root it out from American public life. Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.

  Paul Kurtz

  Religious, Philosophy, Roots

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• The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Religious, Atheism, Lessons

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1992). “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt”

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• It's abominable, and it's a disgrace to a great democracy to see what's happened in our country. The main reason for that has been the enormous infusion of high quantities of money to campaigns - governors, Congress, president and the U.S. Senate.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, President, Democracy

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.

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• I want to know in this day and age, whether it is possible for any candidate who is not a billionaire or who is not beholden to the billionaire class, to be able to run successful campaigns.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Successful, Class

  "Rep. Donna Edwards, Freddie Gray family attorney on bridging the gap between race and justice; Gov. John Kasich considers presidential bid". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 3, 2015.

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• I think there are two basic approaches you can use for campaign finance. One is complete openness, everybody knows absolutely everything, but no limits. But you let people decide.The other is just have a national public system.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Two, People

  "Shields and Brooks on the pope's critique of capitalism, Thanksgiving gratitude". "PBS NewsHour" with Hari Sreenivasan, www.pbs.org. November 28, 2013.

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• So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Ideas, Littles, Voters

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• Michele Bachmann said she wants her three daughters to learn to shoot a gun. Mostly so they can put her campaign out of its misery.

  Conan O'Brien

  Daughter, Gun, Three

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• Rick Perry, started out like a ball of fire from Texas and then he started to drop and now he's retooling. He's adding advisers to his campaign team. This guy had advisers? Really?

  David Letterman

  Team, Fire, Texas

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• Are you excited about the recall election? Arnold's campaign has a new slogan: 'Win one for the groper.'

  David Letterman

  Winning, Election, Excited

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger campaigned in New York this week, where he stepped up his controversial goal of helping children.... It's all summed up in his campaign slogan, 'Arnold Schwarzenegger: Cutting violence in half with a laser-guided chain gun across a charred landscape - for the children.'

  Jon Stewart

  New York, Children, Cutting

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• You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Battle, Logistics

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• There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Lines, Common

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.131, Princeton University Press

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• Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.

  A. O. Scott

  Democracy, Cinema, May

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