Presidential Campaign Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• When I hit the skins they all say, 'Damn Kane...
  You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!'

  Big Daddy Kane

  Rap, Hip Hop, Presidential

  Song: How U Get a Record Deal?, Album: Looks Like a Job For...

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• You're a trivial part in a trivia game.
  Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign?
  Like Ross Perot? He lost it though...
  But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!

  Aceyalone

  Rap, Games, Hip Hop

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• Sen. Joe Biden, on the day of announcing his candidacy for president of the United States, called Barack Obama the first mainstream African-American who is articulate, bright, and . . . clean. I think we've seen the shortest presidential campaign in history.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, Presidential, African American

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• I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I'm not a fighter.

  Herman Cain

  Hurt, Presidential, Campaigns

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• I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.

  Francois Hollande

  Attitude, Distance, Presidential

  "Francois Hollande: 'France Isn't Just Any Country'". Slate.fr interview, www.slate.com. May 7, 2012.

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

  Bill Vaughan

  Country, Presidential, Voting

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• The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

  Juan Williams

  Winning, Presidential, Political

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• I say what I think. I'm a real person, not some manufactured pop tart who's afraid to step out of the hotel room. I am flawed. I swear, I have the occasional cocktail, I pick my nose and I fart. I'm not running for any presidential campaign at the moment. I'm a sassy girl.

  Katy Perry

  Girl, Running, Real

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• Technology policy - whether we should have one and what form such a policy should take - was a core issue of the 1992 presidential campaign, and in February 1993 the Clinton administration confirmed that fostering new technologies will be a critical part of its agenda for redirecting the American economy.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Technology, Should Have, Issues

  "Empowering Technology: Implementing a U.S. Strategy". Book by Lewis M. Branscomb, 1993.

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• A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Real, Men, Presidential

  Speech accepting Democratic presidential nomination, Seagirt, N.J., 7 Aug. 1912

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• The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.

  Jon Voight

  Running, Bullying, Truth

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• Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies.)

  Charles Krauthammer

  Party, America, Irrelevance

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• Bush had expertise in one thing: How to run a Presidential campaign. He understands campaigns and Presidential politics. He has no interest or disposition or I think probably - he's not stupid, but he's not bright, he's not a rocket scientist - he isn't interested in policy.

  John Dean

  Running, Stupid, Thinking

  Source: progressive.org

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• When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

  Dee Dee Myers

  White, Volunteer, House

  "What if women ruled the world?" by Dee Dee Myers, www.today.com. February 23, 2008.

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• When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Play, White, House

  Dee Dee Myers (2009). “Why Women Should Rule the World”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.

  Dan Rather

  Presidential, Political, Covering

  "Dan Rather: 'Quote approval' a media sellout" by Dan Rather, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2012.

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• A political life, I've often said, is a continuing education in human nature, including one's own. My involvement on the ground floor of two presidential campaigns and my duties as First Lady took me to every state in our union and to seventy-eight nations. In each place, I met someone or saw something that caused me to open my mind and my heart and deepen my understanding of the universal concerns that most of humanity shares.

  Hillary Clinton

  Heart, Eight, Two

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• Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.

  Fred Thompson

  Presidential, Chinese, Campaigns

  "The 'Inside Politics' Interview: Sen. Fred Thompson". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. May 19, 1998.

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• I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.

  Patrick Stewart

  Stars, Couple, Past

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• Let me just say that anything that I say about what's going on at Justice is pure speculation. Obviously, you know, I'm just going based on my experience as the attorney general, but, yeah, surprised because typically you don't talk about investigations. And it kind of surprised me that that letter went out, and I suppose that the reason for it is because we're in the middle of a presidential campaign. But nonetheless, I think it would be contrary to typical protocol.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Thinking, Justice, Presidential

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We need to be more precise in how we talk about these issues. People around the word follow our presidential campaigns so closely, trying to get hints about what we will do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Issues, People, Presidential

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the first 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, moderated by anchor of NBC Nightly News Lester Holt, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2016.

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• During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to roll back government regulations.Trump plans to nominate fast food executive Andrew Puzder to head the Labor Department and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the EPA. If confirmed, the two men would signal a sharp break from the policies of the [Barack] Obama administration.

  Rachel Martin

  Men, Two, Oklahoma

  Source: www.npr.org

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• How is it possible that a process can be democratic when it comes by way of money? If there is money then it can be elected a senator, it can be elected a representative. Do you know how much it cost to be elected president of the United States? The amount has reached, billions of dollars, 2 billion, 3 billion, 4 billion dollars, that's how much a presidential campaign costs. How much does a senatorial campaign cost? It costs 80 to 90 million dollars; or the campaign of a representative, 40 to 50 million. Is that really a democracy?

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Presidential, Democracy, Doe

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• The presidential campaign was oriented toward the way we elect the presidency, Electoral College, not the popular vote. The popular vote doesn't matter. This is not a direct democracy. We have a representative republic, and the popular vote doesn't matter and it never has, by design.

  Rush Limbaugh

  College, Design, Presidential

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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