Campaign Promises Quotes

#1. There's much protest, but it falls on deaf ears.

David Levithan

#2. Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

Sherrod Brown

#3. Never vote for a candidate whose campaign promises include 'doing more for children.

Mary Pride

#4. Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima ... The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

Harry S. Truman

#5. John Kerry's newfound interest in fiscal discipline is a political gimmick that defies his 20-year record in the Senate and stands in stark contrast to his reckless and expansive promises of new government spending on the campaign trail.

Steve Schmidt

#6. I felt like a pianist who'd been forced to play on a few white keys in the middle, finally allowed to run his hands all up and down the keyboard.

Ann Brashares

#7. Gilles Duceppe avoids making campaign promises altogether so he can emphasize that his Bloc Quebecois has only one objective: to prevent Harper from forming a majority government.

Martin O'Malley

#8. Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.

Bruce Springsteen

#9. I keep my campaign promises, but I never promised to wear stockings.

Ella T. Grasso

#10. It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated ...

J.K. Rowling

#11. No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again

William J. Clinton

#12. We should be leading, and we're not. We need to get serious about broadband, we need to get serious about competition, we need to get serious about our country.

Michael Copps

#13. For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

Lou Holtz

#14. At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.

Alber Elbaz

#15. I'm not mad. I'm in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.

Kurt Cobain

#16. One day each of us will run out of tomorrows. Let us not put off what is important.

Thomas S. Monson

#17. Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment.

Antonin Scalia

#18. Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming ...

Charles Foster Johnson

#19. Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you.

James Salter

#20. Veganism is about nonviolence:
nonviolence to other sentient beings;
nonviolence to yourself;
nonviolence to the earth.

Gary L. Francione

#21. He is stronger than anyone I know, & warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, & will keep, for the rest of my life.

Veronica Roth

#22. The way to inscribe the will of God on the hearts of people in this world is not by way of law or vote but by way of redemption through Jesus. Jesus' kingdom vision is for his redeemed people and for them alone.

Scot McKnight

#23. Putin had told Yeltsin that he did not like election campaigns, and now he dismissed campaign promises as unachievable lies told by politicians and denigrated television advertisements as unseemly manipulation of gullible consumers.

Steven Lee Myers

#24. Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

Thomas Frank

#25. I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.

Harry Browne

#26. The mayor will be remembered because of his refusal to accept political favors and he kept his campaign promises.

Alicia Mendoza

#27. Neural scientists at M.I.T. say they can plant false memories in your brain. No, that is not new. Politicians have been doing that for years. They're called campaign promises.

Jay Leno

#28. The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.

Christopher Hitchens