Quotes About Campaigns

The idea of allowing corporations to have unlimited influence on our democracy is very dangerous, obviously.

If Republicans want to defend the rights of corporations and billionaires to spend unlimited, secret money in campaigns, then they should say so.

What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides.

All campaigns have ebb and flows along the way, right? Ups and downs.

College students typically receive marketing offers in the mail from upwards of a hundred companies each year.

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.

There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.

Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.

People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case.

My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.

I had run other people's campaigns. I had been doing political activities for a decade before I ever ran for office myself. That is so much the experience of women of my generation. We always feel as though we have to bring so much more to the table, and that never stops the guys.

To be fair, money and politics never work in a directly straight line.

There's nothing that can put more strain on a relationship than running for office.

Fight for the Future (fightforthefuture.org) is dedicated to protecting and expanding the Internet's transformative power in our lives by creating civic campaigns that are engaging for millions of people.

The odd American idea that giving money to political campaigns is free speech means that the very rich have far more free speech, and so in effect far more voting power, than other citizens.

I have high expectations for the people who work for me. I figure that if they work really hard and do a good job on one of my campaigns or in my office, that experience will serve them well later on.

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

I do believe that it's very frequent that officials from foreign governments will meet with members of Congress. They will meet with folks associated with campaigns. That's not aberrational here in Washington.

I know why politicians want to go on TV: that's where really old people are. And old people vote.

After one party loses two elections in a row, there's sort of blood in the water.

Online fundraising is so important to the Democratic Party.

We have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code, under the guise of a charity, to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns.

I want to know in this day and age, whether it is possible for any candidate who is not a billionaire or who is not beholden to the billionaire class, to be able to run successful campaigns.

In politics there is a large difference between loosing and being defeated.