Quotes About Campaigns

Campaigns maybe encourage us to pay attention to attributes that maybe aren't that important in the presidency.

You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96.

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

In presidential campaigns, experience as a candidate is an invaluable asset.

I've been involved in five presidential campaigns, once as national campaign manager for Walter Mondale.

I love presidential campaigns. It is a time when people are feeling what is going on in the heart of our country.

Governorships and Senate seats are the most common stepping-stone offices for presidential campaigns, and U.S. House seats are the most common stepping-stone positions for statewide campaigns.

Americans almost never elect presidents on the basis of foreign policy.

The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage.

My daughter had a Howard Dean Beanie Baby and that didn't help him. T-shirts don't win elections.

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?

Trump delights in building his campaigns around white Americans' racial anxieties.

The depressing reality is that campaigns like the Everyday Sexism Project would not need to exist were casual sexism not so startlingly commonplace.

Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.

Starting with politics, we'd like to replace blanket advertising with individualised targeted and engagement ads.

The thing that Tea Parties have to understand, you can't govern if you don't get elected.

Crossroads is second to none in our support of Tea Party candidates. In 2010 and '12, we spent over $30 million for Senate candidates who were Tea Party candidates. We spent almost $20 million for House candidates who were Tea Party candidates.

The Tea Party elites gained extraordinary influence by being able to funnel millions of undisclosed dollars into campaigns with ads that distort the truth and attack government.

According to USA Today, as of mid-2016, Trump had been part of more

In 1980, the richest one-hundredth of 1 percent of Americans provided 10 percent of contributions to federal elections. By 2012, they provided 40 percent. The Supreme Court has made all this worse through a series of decisions holding that money is speech under the First Amendment and corporations are people.

I give money to everybody, even the Clintons, because that's how the system works," Trump said in 2016. Those might have been the most honest words ever to come out of his mouth.

for small donors to participate, but large donors continue to dominate.) Even before the Supreme Court's grotesque 2010 decision

How many billionaires and big corporations does it take to buy the presidency and Congress? We would soon find out—although we would not know many of their names.