Quotes About Campaign

There were 17 people in the race. I got more votes than anybody in the history of Republican politics. By millions.

The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.

When I campaigned, I'd let them throw a punch, but by gosh, I'd throw two back. I always said, the first rule in politics is never defend, always attack. I still believe that.

Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary.

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world short of war to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

I think the messages are very positive. You know, "Make America great again" is a very positive message. It's not a negative message.

From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.

I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.

The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.

Coolidge declared later that no one knew that McCall had told him to run and "some supposed I would run against him." But Coolidge was not of that stripe.

McCall started to run for the Senate but for some strange reason gave up the race in the midst of his primary campaign and John W. Weeks entered the senatorial race. It was a sad campaign in Massachusetts.

On 2 July 1761, Miran, the 'abominable', murderous, debauchee son of Mir Jafar, was killed – allegedly by a chance sudden strike of lightning while returning from the campaign against Shah Alam. According to John Caillaud, who was present in the camp, 'the young nabob, was lying asleep in his tent at midnight.

One day they came and knocked the cornices from the watch repair and pasted campaign posters on the windows. Torn across, by now, by boys, they urge you still to vote for half an orange beblazoned man who as a whole one failed two years ago to win at his election. Everywhere, in this manner, the past speaks, and it mostly speaks of failure.

Or at least rumours. Ragnar was starting to suspect that any place you put two soldiers together in a campaign, you would get three rumours.

Several weeks later, President Eisenhower complained to reporters that Nixon had lost simply because of a "couple of phone calls.

You do know what the campaign against you is all about, don't you? Your uncompromising attitude makes people feel pathetic. Your very existence reminds them just how much they've sold out,

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

Christmas is the beachhead of God's campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.

I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

Running for president was a good decision.

I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.