Campaign Quotes

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign. (Woodrow Wilson)
One minute decides the outcome of a battle, one hour the success of a campaign, one day the fate of empires. View quote
Alexander Suvorov
Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything. View quote
Helen Thomas
I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country. View quote
Colm Tóibín
I'm backing David Cameron's campaign out of pure, cynical self-interest. View quote
Boris Johnson
Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust. View quote
Ralph Nader
I argued more recently for a hypothecated wealth tax on very high earners to support the campaign against child poverty. Why shouldn't the super-rich be obliged to help the super-poor? View quote
Anthony Giddens
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. View quote
Mario Cuomo
The most important political task facing the out-of-power party- the Democrats for now- is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign. (Pat Sajak)
To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down. View quote
Andrew Cohen
I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed. View quote
David Talbot
Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House. View quote
Louise Slaughter
I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado. View quote
Mary Cheney
We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress. View quote
Nick Lampson
Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come. View quote
Paul Cellucci
But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating. View quote
Robert McChesney
I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in, or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president. View quote
John McCain
For me as leader my time is nearly over, but for Scotland the campaign continues and the dream shall never die. View quote
Alex Salmond
People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency. (Robert Mugabe)
Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment. View quote
Antonin Scalia
For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die. View quote
Ted Kennedy
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes relentlessly persecute them, and treat their teachings with malicious hostility, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaign of lies and slanders. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to surround their names with a certain halo for the "consolation" of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping them, while at the same time emasculating the revolutionary doctrine of its content, vulgarizing it and blunting its revolutionary edge.' View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Our federal government, which was intended to operate as a very limited constitutional republic, has instead become a virtually socialist leviathan that redistributes trillions of dollars. We can hardly be surprised when countless special interests fight for the money. The only true solution to the campaign money problem is a return to a proper constitutional government that does not control the economy. Big government and big campaign money go hand-in-hand. View quote
Ron Paul