Quotes About Election Campaigns

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

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Chris Christie

#6. 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

#7. I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?

Cecily Strong

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

David Letterman

#12. What matters is not what the goyim say, but what the Jews do.

David Ben-Gurion

#13. I often ask students: 'Is this what you would show Tom Ford?' and they say: 'No, we'd have done more work' or 'We'd have dressed better.' So I say: 'Why don't you do that here?'

Louise Wilson

#14. Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in.

Trent Reznor

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Stephen Harper

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it ... but those who do will become well.

Vernon Howard

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

Gough Whitlam

#24. Sometimes it ain't the drunk or the sinner who needs a shovel across the rear, it's the ones who could quote you chapter and verse about grace, but don't hand it out.

Lisa Wingate

#25. I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

Peter Carey

#26. I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

George Bernard Shaw

#27. We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas.

Danny Hillis

#28. 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

#29. Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues

Gram Parsons

#30. 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

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

Henry Adams

#32. THE DOWNFALL OF ambition is sometimes letting life pass you by and only realizing it did so after the fact.

Claire Contreras