Quotes About Campaigning

I read a newspaper article in May 1984 which predicted that syringes would one day be a major cause of the transmission of HIV. It was what I had been waiting for - a project that had a lot of the things that I liked: problem-solving, product design, campaigning, and being a bit of a big mouth pain-in-the-bum.

I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes.

Ambati Rambabu walked with my father for 1,500 kilometres during his historic 'padayatra' before 2004 elections. It is because of the work done by activists like him that Congress won assembly elections twice.

I love covering politics at that early stage where you can walk up to Mike Huckabee, who gets out of his car by himself. A car that he drove, who just walks up and talks to you because that's the only way he can get his message out.

Running for office, or suggesting you might, is no longer about being a politician but being an independent opinion or sensibility entrepreneur. You're looking for an audience to identify with you. Rather than trying to convince a majority of the electorate, you're looking to cull your particular following.

Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.

My cartoons haven't been about the politics of the day or about the personalities; I'm more interested in campaigning about the issues.

My earliest memory campaigning was going to the dump to get petition signatures or handing out literature.

For the Gandhi family, U.P. elections have always been a big picnic.

I believe in campaigning for health care, not warfare.

I loved campaigning for Obama.

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

I don't like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I'd like to see somebody who's going in the office. In fact, I'd like to not see them because that way you'd be sure that they'd be working.

I believe I can lead this party from the front as a campaigning organization.

People spend money on negative campaigning because it works.

Campaigning means talking to people in the street, it's important.

The reason why we have so many stars campaigning for politics is that when we senior artistes go to speak to people, they at least listen to some extent.

I loved campaigning.

Negative campaigning is wrong.

Campaigning ain't tough.

I step out for campaigning only after I complete my pooja at home, which is something I do every day.

It is only because of the love of masses that I am campaigning for the SP.

I have had 20 months of campaigning.

I'm not against T.V. advertising for campaigns, but we need to emphasize field campaigning much more than we do.