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Quotes About Campaign

It is essential that there should not only be a limit on campaign spending but it should be required to say where that money is spent and how it is spent. I think there has been more abuse in campaign spending, actually, than in campaign contributors.
~ Bill Scott
I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.
~ Craig Benson
I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
~ Jack Germond
And it's the President of the United States who said he wasn't going to spike the football and all this, we shouldn't gloat about it, running campaign ads, gloating about it and saying the other guy isn't good enough to do the tough things that I did, which I think is, one reprehensible.
~ Jonah Goldberg
John McCain has not been president of the United States. He ran. He ran a spirited campaign. We lost. I hated to see us lose, but there were a lot of things working against us.
~ Richard Shelby
A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It's not a lot of money.
~ Kenneth Langone
Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.
~ Jay-Z
Leaving the E.U. was not the outcome that I wanted or campaigned, but now that democracy has spoken, we must act on that result. I will fully respect that result.
~ George Osborne
I've become a representative of the American Diabetes Association, and then I just became national spokesman for the American Heart Association for a campaign called The Heart of Diabetes, which brings the awareness of cardio-vascular disease to diabetics.
~ Stephen Furst
If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.
~ Dalia Mogahed
in the group, as the knights preferred stallions—and knelt in the sun-dappled mud and grass of a narrow meadow. Raphael and Percival joined her, kneeling on the other side of the run, two steps back. Mongols at this late stage of their campaign often rode horses other than steppe ponies; war, as Feronantus had observed, was hard on horses, and armies continually replenished their stock. When Mongols rode larger and more complaisant Western horses
~ Neal Stephenson
the group, as the knights preferred stallions—and knelt in the sun-dappled mud and grass of a narrow meadow. Raphael and Percival joined her, kneeling on the other side of the run, two steps back. Mongols at this late stage of their campaign often rode horses other than steppe ponies; war, as Feronantus had observed, was hard on horses, and armies continually replenished their stock. When Mongols rode larger and more complaisant Western horses
~ Neal Stephenson
Above all, the Trump campaign, like the British Vote Leave campaign, made full use of Facebook's ad-testing capability, trying tens of thousands of variants to establish what worked best on the voters being targeted.
~ Niall Ferguson
Trump campaign's involvement with the alt-right brought anti-Semitism back
~ Niall Ferguson
During his campaign, Donald J. Trump embraced the cause of fiscal responsibility and accused President Barack Obama of shackling the country with a 'mountain of debt.'
~ James B. Stewart
I have been growing this moustache, a budding Burt Reynolds number, for a good cause known as Movember.
~ David Sax
Chechens are Muslim, and some share the belief that the West is engaged in a global campaign against Islam.
~ Stephen Kinzer
With the 5-to-4 decision upholding Trump's Muslim ban, arbitrary discrimination is now formal U.S. policy, celebrated by a president who campaigned on a 'total ban' of Muslims entering the United States.
~ Ben Rhodes
Rick Scott's my friend. And I think he's done a great job. And it's my experiences with him that are part of the reason I'm running for Senate.
~ Carlos Lopez-Cantera
I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.
~ Howard Dean
During the election campaign of 2000, it was generally thought that then-governor Bush didn't know much about foreign policy or national security affairs, and that Colin Powell would lead on that front, while the president's main concern would be domestic.
~ Elliott Abrams
As the great Eugene Debs used to tell his socialist voters in the 1912 election campaign, he would not lead them into a Promised Land even if he could, because if they were trusting enough to be led in, they would be trusting enough to be led out again. He urged them, in other words, to do their own thinking.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.
~ Christopher Hitchens
An air force general with so many campaign medals on his uniform that it looked like someone was losing a game of mah-jongg on his chest.
~ Christopher Moore