Quotes About Campaign

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

Dukakis ran without understanding that there was a Democratic Party out in the land, and he never did call on it.

We basically ran the Henry Bellmon campaign.

President Obama ran a campaign in 2008 that was entirely expected from a non-incumbent. You promise, and you imply that if you elect me, everything good is going to happen.

I ran on fixing the roads... I ran on cleaning up drinking water.

The 'SheTrades' programme aims to connect one million women entrepreneurs to markets by 2020 with a campaign, a focussed networking app, and a range of international and national information resources.

When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.

I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.

My challenge is that because I am not self-funding... I'm going out leaning on the generosity of everyday folks.

I am a bit biased. I co-chair the campaign effort of George W. Bush.

In the American League, there seems to have been an entire lack of any concerted campaign to build up a club in New York which should rival the Giants on an even basis.

Being sick is itself a kind of ressentiment. — Against this the invalid has only one great means of cure — I call it Russian fatalism, that fatalism without rebellion with which a Russian soldier for whom the campaign has become too much at last lies down in the snow.

I shot a lingerie campaign in Munich once during the winter, and it was actually snowing. At one point, my body literally turned blue, and we had to stop for 20 minutes to get my temperature back to normal. I kept telling myself, 'Try not think about the cold,' but that's extremely hard when you feel like your toes are about to fall off.

One of the things about politics, when you're actually there, you realize, you're on a high wire and there is no net under you. On any given day, your campaign can implode for something that happens inadvertently or even intentionally.

Full disclosure: the Russians did not tell Hillary Clinton, 'Don't go to Wisconsin.'

Wealthy individuals have always had the capacity to influence politics, of course, but only after two key campaign finance cases - Wisconsin Right to Life and and Citizens United, have they been able to do it in such a large and blatant way.

When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.

It might not be wise for a sometime political journalist to admit this, but the 2016 campaign doesn't seem like fun to me.

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.

If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely - on a talented young comedy writer.

I certainly didn't see the mayor's withdrawal coming. I was looking for a highly contested mayoral campaign.

Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!

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.

This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.