Election Campaigning Quotes

#1. I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning.

Lee Myung-bak

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

Robert Dallek

#3. My hands were made to touch you
My lips were made to love you
My eyes were meant to see you
My tongue was made to taste you.

Katy Evans

#4. I was living alone before, Campbell, if that's what you're asking." She looks at me over the edge of her wine glass. "How about you?"
"I have six wives, fifteen children, and an assortment of sheep."
Her lips curve. "People like you always make me feel like I'm underachieving.

Jodi Picoult

#5. I was delighted that by campaigning throughout England, Scotland and Wales, addressing in all 39 public meetings, I had contributed to the victory of the Conservative Party at this general election.

Edward Heath

#6. 'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts ...

Kathy Acker

#7. The more nearly the film cutter approaches the natural law of interest, the more invisible will be his cutting. If the camera moves from one person to another at the exact moment that you in the legitimate theatre would have turned your head, you will not be conscious of a cut.

Preston Sturges

#8. When sincerity fails, the offer of money usually works.

Mark Fuhrman

#9. These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.

Karl Lagerfeld

#10. I can't stop them. Maybe I can embarrass them from time to time, cost the City some money, but what they're doing here is happening everywhere. We live in a police state and everybody supports the cops.

John Grisham

#11. When you say politics, you conjure a whole bunch of associations: elections, campaigning, debates, fundraising. None of this exists in Russia! We are still fighting not for election victories but for having elections at all.

Garry Kasparov

#12. I am shaking it, popping it, laying it down and working it out

Karen Joy Fowler

#13. But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy ...

John Smith

#14. In seats where perhaps we don't expect to win at the next general election, the new infrastructure gives us a chance to win local council seats and to build a campaigning base which could help us to win in the future.

Theresa May

#15. Romanians have a particular love for poetry and have a beautiful, vivid language. The poets they love are not versifiers like Vadim Tudor, but genuinely complex mystical souls like Mircea Cartarescu.

Andrei Codrescu

#16. In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

Anne Fortier

#17. If raising money is critical to getting reelected, so is spending taxpayers' money to reward those who help get us reelected.

Congressman X

#18. You may be rich, but there is one thing you can't afford - that is, if you are a good sort - you can't afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

Robert Baden-Powell

#19. There's all this talk about Arnold Schwarzenegger. Well, you know where he is now? Visiting Mexico, which I think means that he is definitely going to run for governor. Arnold is smart. He's in Mexico campaigning with the very people who'll be living here by election time.

Jay Leno

#20. 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.

Lucy Powell