Quotes About Campaigns Election

#1. Now God refused to come down to earth in the form of potato-flour; that was an undeniable, indisputable fact.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#2. Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over!

Craig Ferguson

#3. President Obama announced his re-election campaign, though it's not really a surprise. He did all the things that make it official: He filed the paperwork, redesigned his website, and printed another fake birth certificate.

Craig Ferguson

#4. You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns.

Stephen Harper

#5. Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field.

Joe Green

#6. There just aren't enough o's in the word smooth for me, are there?

Lani Diane Rich

#7. Remember, at the end of the day [election] campaigns are always about the candidates.

Chris Christie

#8. The Supreme Court dealt a huge blow, overturning a 100-year-old precedent that basically corporations couldn't give directly to political campaigns. And everyone is up in arms because they don't like it. The Federal Election Commission can't do anything about it.

Lois Lerner

#9. If I take donations from Big Corporates to fund our election campaign, I'll be accountable to them and would have to do what they tell me to do after winning elections. But if I take donations from common people to fund our Election Campaign, after winning, I'll be accountable to them

Arvind Kejriwal

#10. My problems are all problems I'm lucky to have. And I know it, so therein lies the rub.

Maria Semple

#11. 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

#12. Are you excited about the recall election? Arnold's campaign has a new slogan: 'Win one for the groper.'

David Letterman

#13. Earlier today, John McCain was in the news. John McCain gave his first press conference since the election. And he said, 'For a lot of people, Sarah Palin was an energizing factor during the campaign.' Unfortunately for McCain, those people are called Democrats.

Conan O'Brien

#14. Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.

Edward Abbey

#15. In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.

Mark Shields

#16. During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.

Henry Adams

#17. The folks like myself that do this for a living, we were expecting a regular campaign had built the databases, done all the new social media, learned our lessons from [Barack] Obama whipping us twice on how to do voter contact, and then Donald Trump gets in it and turns it into a national election.

Melissa Harris-Perry

#18. For all its considerable merits and inspirational principles, the American system is based upon a continuous uninterrupted process of election campaigns, stretching out year after year. Lost in the perpetual scramble is any long-term vision ...

Queen Noor Of Jordan

#19. A recent analysis of election coverage by the Tindall report which tracks network nicely news programs found that Bernie Sanders received just ten minutes out of 857 minutes of campaign coverage in 2015. Compare that to 234 minutes for Donald Trump, and 113 for Hillary Clinton.

Melissa Harris-Perry

#20. The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.?

Camille Paglia

#21. I wasn't bred to kill with my hands. I was trained to. There's a difference." "Not to me. It amounts to the same deadness.

K.F. Breene

#22. Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#23. What stirs up in my heart is, 'Oh would we see an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.'

Matt Chandler

#24. Maintain your rage and enthusiasm for the campaign for the election now to be held and until polling day.

Gough Whitlam

#25. Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#26. As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.

John Harwood

#27. We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million - that's a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.

Bob Brown

#28. I am convinced that international terrorism gave itself the goal of not allowing the re-election of Bush. The statement by bin Laden in the final stages of the pre-election campaign is the best confirmation of this.

Vladimir Putin

#29. The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.

John Lennon