Quotes About Campaigns

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is.

The Republican Party's gerrymandering efforts were also having unintended consequences. For years the party had poured resources into state legislatures in order to redraw congressional districts and lock in Republican control. But this strategy also left incumbents susceptible to primary challenges by candidates who were more radical than they themselves were and who had their pick of billionaires to fund their campaigns.

This is a classic ploy familiar to revolutionary leaders throughout history: the failure of the revolution proves the need to radicalize it. This is why, for decades now, Americans have been spectators at the dark comedy of Republicans running for office successfully against "the government"—and then, once in power, running for reelection on the promise to bring down "the government" they themselves control.

I particularly dislike the high-profile switch-off campaigns where whole cities are plunged into darkness for an hour as a supposedly symbolic gesture about energy use. So is the implication that we all need to live in constant gloom to reduce CO2 emissions?

Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don't have much of a vision for the future or you're not ready to articulate it.

We also have to factor in that candidates do not always compete on an equal footing: those who have access to the media or use the state apparatus for their campaigns have an important advantage in relation to everyone else.

At the same time, in Rome, fears about outsiders flooding into the city were whipped up in a way familiar from many modern campaigns of xenophobia.

The easiest way to predict what kinds of "electability" stories you'll see in an election season is to look at the field of candidates and see which ones have a lot of lobbying and ad money behind them. Those candidates will be described as electable. Everyone else will get the "polls say" treatment.

As for the rest of them, God help us. Trump's continued success puts the onus on the field to try to out-crazy the frontrunner.

La financiación de las campañas electorales y las hordas de representantes de los lobbies dan a las grandes corporaciones y a las personas ricas poder suficiente para deformar las reglas a su favor.

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.

Este tan aventajado movimiento político-religioso hace que las campañas rivales se vean y se sientan anémicas.

a veces pareciera que no gobierna sino que está en una campaña electoral permanente.

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

Many distortion campaigns seem to revolve around either real or perceived abandonment, loss, and rejection

Everything you do inside an AdWords account is a little science experiment.

So what the hell do you want us to do, then?" Delvan asked. "Make that cost exorbitant," Soi Hon said. "Such people always assign a value to everything in monetary terms. We might not be able to defeat them on Mortonridge, but we can certainly prevent any further Liberation campaigns after this one.