These political campaign quotes will inspire you. A political campaign is an organized effort that seeks to influence the decision-making progress of a specific group.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging political campaign quotes, political campaign sayings, and political campaign proverbs.
Best Political Campaign Quotes
- “Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.” ~ James Harvey Robinson
- “We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favorite blood sport. It has long been the basis of political campaign strategy. It is the theme of much television programming across the world. It sells newspapers. Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections.” ~ Henry B. Eyring
- “Well, you know, in any political campaign, you’re gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it’ll hurt the guy on the other side.” ~ Bob Schieffer
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“Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.” ~ Tony Snow
- “I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.” ~ Adlai E. Stevenson
- “Here’s what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it’s always different at the end.” ~ Chris Christie
- “I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.” ~ Noam Chomsky
- “Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for everybody involved in it.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
- “Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.” ~ John Podhoretz
- “The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith. They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people’s money.” ~ H. L. Mencken
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“Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.” ~ Woodrow Wilson
- “During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he’s too busy wondering what he’ll do if he isn’t elected.” ~ Everett Dirksen
- “October is the cruelest month of any election year, but by then, the pain is so great that even the strong are like jelly and time has lost all meaning for anybody still involved in a political campaign. By that time, even candidates running unopposed have abandoned all hope of victory and live only for the day when they will finally be free to seek vengeance on all those treacherous bastards who once passed themselves off as loyal friends and allies and swore they were only in it because they all shared the same hopes and dreams.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
- “A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.” ~ H. L. Mencken
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“Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections.” ~ Henry B. Eyring
- “It’s an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.” ~ Sal Albanese
- “The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process.” ~ Walter Cronkite
- “My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.” ~ Neil Young
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“The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.” ~ John James Ingalls
- “Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.” ~ Lucy Parsons
- “We saw images and ideas from white supremacists literally shared from political campaigns showing up in the Twitter feeds of major news organizations. We saw it in our political rallies as well.” ~ Jonathan Greenblatt
- “I’m very much a believer that it’s action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns.” ~ Christine Lagarde
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“Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.” ~ Ronald Reagan
- “Usually I just let my songs do the talking. As a matter of fact I have long had an aversion to celebrities endorsing politics, and in some cases even other causes. I wonder about their motives. And I have to admit when celebrities get involved in political campaigns I tend to get a little bit sarcastic about it.” ~ John Fogerty
- “I believe in freedom of speech. And I believe that spending on political campaigns is a form of political speech that is protected under the constitution.” ~ Marco Rubio
- “What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false. For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.” ~ H. L. Mencken
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“It’s a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history.” ~ John McCain
- “The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is – second only to American political campaigns – the most prominent and pernicious manifestation of anti-intellectualism in our time.” ~ Larry Laudan
- “As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it – most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values – hope and change.” ~ Adam Braun
- “In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.” ~ Bernie Sanders
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“Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.” ~ Teresa Heinz
- “I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level and have run campaigns or have been deeply involved in grass roots political campaigns and who have actual hands-on experience.” ~ Roy Romer
- “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
- “People get together and they donate to organizations so that a pile of money can be used to create a message that can be broadcast en masse as part of the a political campaign. They are the lifeblood of Hillary Clinton campaign, the banks and all these big time rich people from Hollywood and Silicon Valley are the mother’s milk of her campaign. They are the money. She just doesn’t want Donald Trump to have it or any other Republican to have it or any average citizen to be able to bundle his money with other people’s money and create an ad or a campaign.” ~ Rush Limbaugh
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“It’s much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
- “I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns.” ~ Bernie Sanders
- “Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Pretend to be a religious fanatic and you can pick up a third of the vote right away. Nobody asked whether Lyndon Johnson went to church every day. Bill Clinton is probably about as religious as I am, meaning zero, but his managers made a point of making sure that every Sunday morning he was in the Baptist church singing hymns.” ~ Noam Chomsky
- “We need to put limits on how much an individual, group or business can spend on influencing an individual legislator or a whole set of legislators. Look at the vast sums that the NRA spends on getting all legislators to be soft on gun control. Legislators find it hard to refuse the NRA’s largess when they need contributions to their political campaign wherever they can get them.” ~ Philip Kotler
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“The problem isn’t too little money in political campaigns, but not enough.” ~ Newt Gingrich
- “We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons and daughters of the farm workers’ revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking bread and justice.” ~ Cesar Chavez
- “They used to ask: “How will this decision that we make today affect our people in the future?” Now we make decisions based on: “How does it affect me, now? How does it affect the next shareholders meeting, three months ahead? How does it affect my next political campaign?”” ~ Jane Goodall
- “There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns are very labor intensive and volunteer dependent.” ~ Marc Racicot
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“Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.” ~ Rich Lowry
- “The temptation to be popular may prioritize public opinion above the word of God. Political campaigns and marketing strategies widely employ public opinion polls to shape their plans. Results of those polls are informative. But they could hardly be used as grounds to justify disobedience to God’s commandments!” ~ Russell M. Nelson
- “The data shows pretty clearly that how voters watch video programming is dramatically changing and reinforces the need for political campaigns to better match their communications outreach efforts to the voters’ changing media habits.” ~ Neil Newhouse
- “Because the people of New Hampshire take their responsibilities as citizens of the Republic seriously, they keep it interesting for candidates who, believe it or not, can get a little tired of the mannered, predictable, and unimaginative qualities that typically afflict modern political campaigns.” ~ John McCain
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“Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.” ~ Carly Fiorina
- “America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.” ~ Richard Lamm
- “I feel like there is this weird thing where celebrity involvement in political campaigns kind of goes together like peanut butter and chocolate. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad.” ~ Rashida Jones
- “The real estate interests and banks are in a kind of symbiosis. They’re the largest-growing part of the economy. This is the sector that backs the political campaigns of senators, presidents and congressmen, and they use this leverage to make sure that their people dominate the Federal Reserve, Treasury and the federal housing agencies.” ~ Michael Hudson
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“Political campaign must not be aimed at collecting ballots, instead, it’s honestly aim at seeking support for an ideology.” ~ Khem Veasna
- “The months of political campaigning have given us vivid reminders that women’s rights are under constant assault all over the globe. Tragically even the church has some self-examination to do, where often women are perceived as a threat or viewed as temptresses.” ~ Carolyn Custis James
- “[When a John McCain political campaign video that used her image] That wrinkly white-haired guy used me in his campaign ad, which means I’m running for President. So thanks for the endorsement white-haired dude, and I want America to know I’m like, totally ready to lead.” ~ Paris Hilton
- “[Donald Trump ] would make history in so many ways because he is a candidate who eschewed the traditional arts of political campaigns, including field organization, traditional advertising, debate preparation and policy knowledge.” ~ Mara Liasson
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“Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.” ~ Walter Lippmann
- “I think one of the core ideas in America has always been conversation and being able to question our systems of government, and being able to dictate our own communities and how we want this country to work. And I feel like we’re losing part of that because of the way that even our current political campaign is centered more around celebrity than anything else, and so we’re kind of losing conversation. We’re still having conversations, but they seem to be more about like Donald Trump’s hair and like memes of his face more than anything else.” ~ Amandla Stenberg
- “I’ve repeatedly seen the anti-Russian card played during domestic political campaigns in the States. I think that it’s a very short-sighted approach. It seems to me that it doesn’t fully meet the level of responsibility that lies on the shoulders of the U.S. I think that all this should be more dignified, calm and more balanced.” ~ Vladimir Putin
- “I am absolutely disgusted that anyone would put thousands of America’s boys at risk just to win a Political Campaign.” ~ Hubert H. Humphrey
- “Vermont is such a small state, and the most money that’s ever been spent in the history of political campaigns there is $2 million. That number is going to be surpassed many times. Vermont remains a “cheap state” for the Republican National Committee. So putting $5 or $10 million into Vermont – compared to New York or California or Illinois – that’s small potatoes.” ~ Bernie Sanders
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“There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign – the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity.” ~ Mike McCurry
- “I pledge you, pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and of courage. This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms. Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our cultural diversity (Chicanos, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans become indistinguishable), avoids our indigenous cultural heritage and links us directly with Spain. Worse yet, it possesses connotations of upward mobility and political obedience.” ~ Guillermo Gomez-Pena
- “Can you let your son’s body become the same temperature as your son’s head before you turn this into a political campaign against the president? Could you do that?” ~ Glenn Beck
- “It was amazing to see Donald Trump on the night before election, who had been describing Hillary Clinton as crooked and corrupt, in a matter of a moment, was describing her as a fine and dedicated public servant, once he had won the election. So, there was a kind of barbarism all the way around, I think, in this political campaign, in which the issues really were boiled down to very small sound bites.” ~ Betsy McCaughey
