Campaigner Quotes

#1. That Mitt Romney, he is a master campaigner. This week he was introducing his wife, and he said, 'She is the heavyweight champion of my life. Which may explain why on the ride home, he was strapped to the roof of the car.

Bill Maher

#2. Ah, sweetheart, she's not the one I want to bend back over my bike right now. Jesus ... Christ.

Lauren Gilley

#3. Clinton is the first female to be taken seriously for the highest office in the land. She has the credentials, the stamina and she is a good campaigner. Her detractors in both parties like to say she can't win, but they may be proven wrong.

Helen Thomas

#4. 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.

Zac Goldsmith

#5. I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#6. The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

William James

#7. We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. I have been obscenely lucky. I've got most of the things I've asked for and done well at the things I've wanted to succeed at.

M. J. Hyland

#9. I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

Elizabeth Edwards

#10. I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I have become an environmental campaigner.

Roz Savage

#11. Reagan, people claimed, was too old to run for president and to be elected. But he proved himself such a vigorous campaigner in the primary system that he overcame those beliefs.

Geoffrey Cowan

#12. I have a love for astronomy; Aruna, my wife, and I love travelling, so whenever we get an opportunity, we set off to explore places that have tickled our interest. We are also wildlife enthusiasts.

Viswanathan Anand

#13. The music that I make is pretty sincere; it's from my heart and I love it, and what just happened is more people have started to connect with my heart, and I haven't followed some kind of marketing scheme,

Esperanza Spalding

#14. I am an animal rights campaigner myself, and I donate money and time to those charities, but I think sometimes the problem with animal rights campaigners, including myself, is that we don't think about people's feelings, too.

Kerry Condon

#15. Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.

Auguste Rodin

#16. Neocons say we attack them because they are Jewish. We do not. We attack them because their warmongering threatens our country, even as it finds a reliable echo in Ariel Sharon.

Pat Buchanan

#17. No being a good campaigner, if you're not a good neighbour.

John-Paul Flintoff

#18. The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

P. J. O'Rourke

#19. Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

Nicola Sturgeon

#20. What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.

Paul Ryan

#21. An old campaigner, he did not speak until we were on the sidewalk. "What's up?" "Jem's got the look-arounds," an affliction Calpurnia said all boys caught at his age.

Harper Lee

#22. [Hillary Clinton] has talked about not being a natural campaigner. And she has this big shadow because her husband, the former president [Bill Clinton], and President [Barack] Obama both are natural campaigners. And so this is a challenge for her.

Tamara Keith

#23. I am a charity campaigner.

Heather Mills

#24. Even if you don't mind Romneycare, or the abortion flip-flop, or any of the rest, there's a more basic problem: He's not a natural campaigner, and on the stump he instinctively recoils from any personal connection with the voters.

Mark Steyn

#25. I'm a freedom of information campaigner, so obviously I support the cause of Wikileaks.

Heather Brooke

#26. I take responsibility for everything that happens in the SNP as leader.

Nicola Sturgeon

#27. All Quiet on the Western Front,

Mark Kurlansky

#28. You can't hope for a better result as a campaigner than to have the prime minister announce a major policy change within 48 hours of your documentary.

Heather Brooke

#29. There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

Ken Thompson

#30. Just remember, stealing's punishable by death

Suzanne Collins