Quotes About Campaigns

Nine out of ten times in the House of Representatives, and eight out of ten times in the Senate, the candidate who spends the most money wins.

The ignorance of the dark-skinned strata, despite the government's ceaseless educational campaigns. No wonder their women were often preg.

The role of money in politics is a major problem and particularly the role of unchecked anonymous money.

Similarly, in 2014, former Senate majority leader Trent Lott (R-MS) and former senator John Breaux (D-LA) became the main lobbyists for Gazprombank, a subsidiary of Russia's largest supplier of natural gas. More recently, in 2016, millions of dollars in Russian money was funneled to Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell3 and other high-profile Republicans to finance GOP senatorial candidates.

As a veteran of many campaigns, I know how important it is not let up in the last few days.

Despite all the public hand-wringing about negative advertising, political veterans will tell you that it persists because, more often than not, it works. But tearing down the other guy has another attraction: It can be a substitute for building much of a case for what the mudslinger will do once in office.

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

While it's true that the vice presidential slot isn't the most important thing on people's minds in a presidential election, these debates frequently matter.

We have come to expect campaigns to be mean and stupid and politicians to be unresponsive, self-seeking and for sale to the highest bidder. We make jokes about our vice president, and all we ask of a president is that he be likeable. We seem to have given up on the Pentagon's corrupt use of our tax dollars.

John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.

Stalking can have devastating consequences, and I am determined that we do all we can to protect victims from these prolonged and terrifying campaigns of abuse that can last years, leaving many people too afraid to leave their homes and unable to get on with their lives.

I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.

We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew.

Every time I have fought elections, I have improved my victory margins.

The word that identified what we did not possess was "money," . . . The other word was "votes," so that together "money votes" was "open sesame" to the deep caverns of the American political system.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

I don't think we'll win every election.

Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.

Every election is important for national politics.

No election is a single issue election.

I cannot have any apprehensions during elections.

Elections are so crazy.

Money is important, but money doesn't buy you elections.

I will continue to work with the Republican Party to try to encourage primaries.