Quotes About Campaigns

I'll be active in politics through PACs at a later date.

Be a politician; no training necessary.

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

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

The role of money in politics is terrible, particularly when you're running for president. You get a handful of billionaires who can basically buy the White House.

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.

Money is the mother's milk of politics.

I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.

Money and donations are an important part of our political system. They are hard power.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

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

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

for those who have themselves been victims of extermination campaigns to proclaim uniqueness for their experiences only as a way of denying recognition to others who also have suffered massive genocidal brutalities is to play into the hands of the brutalizers.

Campaigns are no longer high-minded exchanges of ideas, even though God knows we need more good ones - ideas, that is.

Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.

I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.

Even I realized that money was to politicians what the eucalyptus tree is to koala bears: food, water, shelter, and something to crap on.

Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins.

What's the point of these demagogic campaigns if these hungry kids are still here on the road? All little ones deserve protection, food, love and peace.

Marketing isn't just a few individual events. It's the sum total of everything you do.

The "evils of faction" theme recurs throughout our history, from the writings of the "muckrakers" at the turn of the twentieth century to the Democratic presidential primary campaigns of 2008 with talk of Halliburton's contracts in Iraq and the shady practices of sub-prime mortgage lenders.