Quotes About Campaigns

According to House minority leader Richard Gephardt: "What we have is two important values in direct conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy.

The UDC's monument campaigns were always supported by a narrative that Confederate veterans fought nobly and that defeat did not erase the justness of their cause.

Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

It may be a sad commentary, but it is a fact that many people equate political campaigns with television advertising. If you're on the air, you're campaigning; if you're not on the air, you're nowhere. Just days after the first ad appeared, several people I encountered commented on it.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

I ended up working on over 150 political campaigns in 42 states; over a third of those were for Republicans. I want to be clear about that. Approximately two-thirds were for Democrats, so, I worked on both sides of the aisle, across the United States.

Advertising is much like war, minus the venom

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns.

You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.

Until we make campaigns affordable, then we're going to have too many members of Congress out rattling the cup with special interest groups.

I have a specialization in a very particular area: the presidential primary process.

I ran for the Senate six times. And one of the things I know about Senate races off years and on races, and on years, the same as governor's races, is it's all local. It all gets down to what the specific issues in that - in that district or that state is.

While money is used to finance speech, money is not speech.

My life was taken up by road shows, election rallies and campaign speeches. I was clocking four to five hours of sleep every day.

People are moping around and I think campaigns can be about lifting the spirits of the American people.

Meanwhile, as Francis Fukuyama has argued, the very legitimacy of democratic politics is being corroded because 'interest groups . . . are able to effectively buy politicians with campaign contributions and lobbying', a process that he dubs 'repatrimonialization

A lot of times when people are on campaigns, it can be like a movie set.

Whether anyone has ever changed their mind as a result of a celebrity endorsement of a candidate is a bit of a mystery.

The Nazi-sponsored Aryanization campaigns, clandestine rearmament, industrial bailouts, and public-works programs created a gold rush for businesses favored by the Nazi government.

In countries where the people have the ballot you have to promise them something desirable, otherwise the opposition will outbid you.

There will be others like him," replied Lanny, "unless we solve the problem of poverty in the midst of plenty. The German middle classes, the little men like Hitler, were being wiped out, and he offered a millennium, also a scapegoat, the Jews. When he got the votes, he took them to the big industrialists and sold them for more campaign funds.