Top 70 Campaigning Quotes

You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate – you never stop running. It’s not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that’s driven by the cost of campaigning.

I have learned that the hardest part of campaigning for tolerance and justice is encouraging people to look at their own selves, to examine their own identity and shortcomings.

I was taught nothing about the suffragettes in school. The version I eventually got was mainly about the peaceful campaigning of the constitutional suffragists. Their work was vital, but there was this other, not widely known story of the women who risked everything, who were prepared to break every taboo.

I felt blessed by the existence of Horace Porter’s ‘Campaigning With Grant.’

Part of the problem with politics is we don’t have people who want to get in the fray because of guys like Sen. McConnell, who essentially invented negative campaigning.

Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.

I tried to explain in ‘The Nine of Us’ how we grew up with politics. At meals we talked about what was in the newspaper. We talked politics non-stop! Campaigning for our brothers was a part of our lives.

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor – but the Church is not a campaign.

Part of the reason I am so evangelical in our campaigning work is that I had an unshakeable faith in Labour values, but we needed a machine worthy of the message. I grew up with a peerless Conservative machine, with vastly superior resources.

Politics lasts only so long – though today it’s getting harder to tell where the campaigning stops and the governing begins.

I wasn’t campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you’ve got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions – the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts; and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.

Getting political representation is important, but change comes through using direct action, campaigning, and trade unions.

I feel like I am campaigning door to door. You just can’t step out of a band like Brooks & Dunn and assume that it is just going to be business as usual. You have to work it. It does feel like a campaign where you would have Obama, Romney, or Newt beating the bushes right now. That’s what I’m having to do.

Campaigning for Congress is an issue of conviction, and there is no element of any personal gain in it.

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

My cartoons haven’t been about the politics of the day or about the personalities; I’m more interested in campaigning about the issues.

Putin operates like a super PAC, taking advantage of opportunities for negative campaigning. The purpose is to show that the U.S. has no moral authority.

The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the make or a quasi-religious enthusiast who wants to prove his case at any cost. Science is becoming the tool of campaigning warfare, in which truth is the first casualty.

Governing is one thing, campaigning is another – and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.

Since 2007 I have been campaigning for the BJP pan-India.

I’ve still got a bit of angst about campaigning for a particular party. I want to write jokes about whoever I want without toeing a party line.

I have had 20 months of campaigning.

Today, campaigning isn’t an ‘interruption’ but a permanent condition. Indeed, if you are a successful campaigner, it’s expected you’ll be a successful president.

I’m not against T.V. advertising for campaigns, but we need to emphasize field campaigning much more than we do.

I loved campaigning for Obama.

In the old days I’d like to have been a politician, when I think the world was more idealistic. When I was young I did a lot of campaigning.

I have my private security and they can look after me, but who will control the crowd? We are witnessing huge crowds during campaigning. If something untoward happens, then what?

The Election Commission stopped me from campaigning. I accepted it and reached people through my prayer – in silence. People gave their approval. Praying in silence is important, and this spiritual prayer has paid off.

When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.

Biologists have determined brookies to be indicators of ecosystem health and have been recently campaigning to get the word out. If brookies inhabit a stream, the odds are good that the waterway is in excellent condition.

Only in Washington would the Republican operatives get the entire press corps ginned up over the notion that I’m going to be home campaigning instead of going to a bunch of worthless parties at a convention that’s only being held to do something we all know is going to happen anyway.

Harvey Weinstein bought our film, and he’s an animal. He’s got us out there campaigning and everything because honestly it’s a silent black-and-white film.

I believe I can lead this party from the front as a campaigning organization.

Campaigning and acting aren’t compatible. That’s why Audrey Hepburn gave up acting. That’s why Angelina Jolie will give up. I’m not ready to stop yet.

It’s about grass-roots campaigning, meeting voters face-to-face, and above all, listening to what they have to say.

I’ve been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie.

I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage, and I went to Sewage School and hung out with kids learning to make sewage soup and how to clean sewage. And it was great – really good fun.

You’re really earning the support of New Hampshire voters, and you’ve got to do that one-on-one grassroots campaigning here, even if you have the most money.

I was hopeful and I was encouraged that there will be a difference between the President Trump and the campaigning Trump.

Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.

Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.

I don’t want to be polite. I don’t think campaigning is polite. That’s a disingenuous effort.

I went on the road with Hillary Rodham Clinton when she was out campaigning.

If I’m sure of a person and his potential in politics, and if I know he will live up to his promises, I wouldn’t mind campaigning for him. I believe in the dictum, ‘never say never.’ You never know, I might end up joining politics.

Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early ’90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.

British civil society has a fantastic record of campaigning to push politicians of all colours and countries to step up on climate.

I believed that the numbers and processes of modern campaigning that revolve around the meticulous use of data would matter in 2016. I believed Trump was merely a spectacle, a political sideshow who would be dispatched by the well-funded and the well-staffed major campaigns.

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

Men are much more up-front with their friends. There isn’t as much maneuvering, back-stabbing and covert campaigning. It is what it is at face value.

I really am glad that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has had the courage to stand up and say that children should not be hit under any circumstances. I am a committed supporter of this campaigning charity for children.

In Indian communities, it’s a separate sovereign government, so you have to get permission from the tribal leadership before you can start campaigning on their land.

Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.