Quotes About Campaign

Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way.

The genocide [in Rwanda] was not a spontaneous eruption of tribal hatred, it was planned by people wanting to keep power. There was a long government-led hat campaign against the Tutsis.

The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best? ' published in 1975.

denial itself was institutionalized as a government function. Since 1923, the Turkish government has spent tens of millions of dollars in a concerted disinformation campaign to delude the world at large and, perhaps more important, its own people.

In the Lean Startup model, every product, every feature, every marketing campaign—everything a startup does—is understood to be an experiment designed to achieve validated learning.

A new phrase occurs to him, and the neatness of it opens his face a little. "It's crystal-clear, at this election," he says. "It is a choice between me as prime minster and Bill Shorten as prime minister. You vote for me, you'll get me. You vote for Bill Shorten and you'll get Bill Shorten.

Allied casualty rates averaged 6,674 a day for the seventy-seven days of the Normandy campaign. Those numbers would have been far higher, had it not been for a small and most peculiar band of men and women fighting a secret battle.

As it was, D-Day was a damn close-run thing and a brutal struggle: Allied casualty rates averaged 6,674 a day for the seventy-seven days of the Normandy campaign. Those numbers would have been far higher, had it not been for a small and most peculiar band of men and women fighting a secret battle.

Merging the SEC and CFTC was a political nonstarter because they were overseen by separate committees in Congress. The congressional oversight committees jealously guarded their turf because the market players regulated by the two agencies could be counted on to provide lucrative campaign contributions.

Essentially, Romney's campaign slogan was this: "Obama: Good Guy, Bad President.

Donald Trump was made for Facebook. So was another type of content: attacks on Hillary Clinton.

If Trump's actions as President reflect his campaign rhetoric, the ACLU and other capable organizations like it will be critical for defending the Bill of Rights for all Americans.

Trump has become the star of our 24-hour political news cycle, and every pundit in America seems to be grabbing for some of the reflected light from his explosive campaign.

To a certain extent, people's behavior in a campaign is generally a reflection of how they would act in office.

Azam Khan has made me the focus of his campaign. I have for long been suffering his tongue-lash. It only reflects his state of mind. He does a lot of drama.

One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

One such issue that Arkansans want action taken on is campaign finance reform. And this is a problem that is not really all that complicated.

I'm not a fan of the #DeleteFacebook campaign. I think that they can reform.