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- Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people raised in a faith-based culture will stick with their religion and be lost to science. -- Martin Rees
- Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections. -- George McGovern
- The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. -- C. S. Lewis
- And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings. -- Sibel Edmonds
- I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time. -- Patrick Stewart
- I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support. -- Tony Benn
- Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me. -- Jesse Ventura
- Campaigning is different from governing. -- Barack Obama
- Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time. -- Mary Cheney
- Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign. -- Rowan Williams
- dating is like campaigning: you don't reveal who you really are or what you're really up to until you get elected. -- Jane Stanton Hitchcock
- For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses. -- Anita Roddick
- Halloween is a day when we all get to fool people into thinking we're someone else. Or as Mitt Romney calls it, campaigning. -- Bill Maher
- I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
- Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. -- David S. Broder
- Remember when Obama was campaigning? Didn't he say he was going to close Guantanamo Bay? Didn't he say that? Apparently, he just meant for renovations. -- Jay Leno
- I've been an Obama supporter since he announced he was campaigning. I was aware of him as a senator, but I wasn't as engaged as I probably should've been. -- Pete Wentz
- Hillary Clinton is campaigning in Iowa, virtually going door to door to every home in Iowa. Jehovah's Witnesses finally got fed up and said, 'Get lost. Get out of here!' -- David Letterman
- You know, Barack Obama the last ten days was traveling overseas campaigning in Europe and everywhere. It was so successful, campaigning abroad, that he is actually thinking about campaigning here in the United States. -- David Letterman
- Campaigning actress ASHLEY JUDD refuses to 'breed' with her racing star husband DARIO FRANCHITTI while there are starving children in the world. . . . She says, 'It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.' -- Ashley Judd
- Christians must understand the nature of the change that has occurred in our culture. No longer do the secularists just mock Christians from afar. They are now actively campaigning to indoctrinate children in an anti-God philosophy--to teach them to be secularists and atheists. -- Ken Ham
- I would not want to be a politician... Let me tell you this: If I was campaigning, and I go against my opponent and he started attacking my character, and I leap over the table and choke him unconscious, would that help my campaign? -- Chuck Norris
- And how about that Barack Obama? You know what they're saying? For the first time he's starting to slip in the polls. Barack Obama is starting to slip in the polls. Don't worry. He's got a plan. He's going to be to campaigning in Europe. -- David Letterman
- If I'm sure of a person and his potential in politics, and if I know he will live up to his promises, I wouldn't mind campaigning for him. I believe in the dictum, 'never say never.' You never know, I might end up joining politics. -- Arjun Rampal
- People who keep dogs live longer on average than those who do not. This is not some kind of pro-canine campaigning fantasy. It is a simple medical fact that the calming influence of the company of a friendly pet animal reduces blood pressure and therefore the risk of heart attack. -- Desmond Morris
- I was sorry to see the News of the World go down, I think it was a great campaigning newspaper. Who can forget the News of the World's high profile campaign against child sex offenders which led to News of the World readers burning down the home of a paediatrician, throwing rocks at a pedalo, stamping on a centipede. -- Stewart Lee
- I'm concerned about the negative aspect of political campaigning in american nation, which is a new phenomenon. When I ran for president against Gerald Ford and later against Ronald Reagan we never referred to each other except as 'my distinguished opponent'. And had we criticised personally our opponent it would have been political suicide, we would have been castigated and condemned for it. -- Jimmy Carter
- It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies. -- Pat Paulsen
- I believe I can lead this party from the front as a campaigning organization. -- Nigel Farage
- I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort. -- Carl Paladino
- Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language. -- Gary Johnson
- Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's 2006 attacks on Michael J. Fox for campaigning about stem cell research. -- Christine Pelosi
- Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality. -- Louis de Bernieres
- Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. -- David Broder
- Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it. -- Laura Ingraham
- You're really earning the support of New Hampshire voters, and you've got to do that one-on-one grassroots campaigning here, even if you have the most money. -- Kelly Ayotte
- I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done. -- Ed Koch
- 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
- I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes. -- Karl Rove
- Barack Obama has brought glamour back to American politics - not the faux glamour-by-association of campaigning with movie stars or sailing with the Kennedys, but the real thing. The candidate himself is glamorous. Audiences project onto him the personal qualities and political positions they want in a president. -- Virginia Postrel
- I don't like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I'd like to see somebody who's going in the office. In fact, I'd like to not see them because that way you'd be sure that they'd be working. -- Clint Eastwood
- John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency. He thought he had won, but six states hung in the balance, and after months of exhaustive campaigning, he was too tired to stay awake any longer. -- Robert Dallek
- The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the make or a quasi-religious enthusiast who wants to prove his case at any cost. Science is becoming the tool of campaigning warfare, in which truth is the first casualty. -- Paul Johnson
- In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving very small amounts of money through ticket sales and raffle prizes: yes, it's much harder work than big donations, but I think it's a more democratic and transparent way of fundraising. -- Lucy Powell
- You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning. -- Evan Bayh
- I read a newspaper article in May 1984 which predicted that syringes would one day be a major cause of the transmission of HIV. It was what I had been waiting for - a project that had a lot of the things that I liked: problem-solving, product design, campaigning, and being a bit of a big mouth pain-in-the-bum. -- Marc Koska
- I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told me that they were waiting for the next tax increase before they started growing their business. I've never met a single job creator who's ever said to me I can't wait until government raises taxes again so I can go out and create a job. -- Marco Rubio
- I loved campaigning for Obama. -- Kate Walsh
- I believe in campaigning for health care, not warfare. -- Mimi Kennedy
- The truth is, the 'Fortune' 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning. -- Bradley A. Smith
- There's a very big difference between campaigning and governing. -- Richard Stengel
- My husband is absolutely opposed to any negative campaigning at all. -- Cindy McCain
- I always say that campaigning and governing are two different things. -- Barack Obama
- Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning. -- Ronald Reagan
- I am actively campaigning for 'chest hair' to become an Olympic sport. -- Chris Carmack
- Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility. -- Susan Rice
- I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book. -- Bristol Palin
- I've been campaigning for 17 of the last 24 months. I'm ready to legislate and not campaign. -- John Y. Campbell
- We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal. -- Hugh Sidey
- I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills. -- Peter Mandelson
- Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights. -- Hafez Ibrahim
- Doing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do. -- Hazel Blears
- 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
- Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs. -- Bradley A. Smith
- Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union. -- Robert Dallek
- My cartoons haven't been about the politics of the day or about the personalities; I'm more interested in campaigning about the issues. -- Judy Horacek
- Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better. -- Beth Simone Noveck
- Harvey Weinstein bought our film, and he's an animal. He's got us out there campaigning and everything because honestly it's a silent black-and-white film. -- Penelope Ann Miller
- If you're campaigning against ObamaCare, but you're also having to defend yourself for closing the government, that seems to take away the asset from you. -- Ted Cruz
- But he's looking for love in all the wrong places. Like fancy under catalogs At least he knows enough not to date while he's campaigning -- Meg Cabot
- Bernie Sanders is usually speaking to the converted. He fires them up. It`s a completely different style of campaigning that he`s allergic to. -- Steve Kornacki
- George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates - except for Dean and Kucinich - are campaigning. -- Ralph Nader
- I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it. -- Peter Jennings
- The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma. -- Jose Serrano
- I would not ask anyone to vote for me based on my last name. I am certainly not campaigning to be president because my last name is Clinton. -- Bernie Sanders
- Somebody is saying this is inevitable "? and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true. -- Richard Stallman
- I really will never understand pushing back on comedians who are like, "I'm like a politician campaigning and shaking hands with these people. They're going to be okay." -- Jen Kirkman
- I think most people would be surprised at the length of the day whilst you're campaigning and then the variety of things that you do and you're asked to do. -- Eric Abetz
- 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
- Gray Davis got some good news this week: the Clintons are out here in California campaigning for him. Actually, Hillary is campaigning for Davis, Bill is out here for Larry Flynt. -- Jay Leno
- While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers. -- Gore Vidal
- Whether it's running for president or trying to win an Oscar, campaigning is a must and relationships are a big part of that. It's about who you know to rally behind you. -- Ryan Kavanaugh
- The point is Hillary Clinton's campaign is the first one to do it [asking about Barack Obama legitimity] because all she does is engage in negative campaigning against Barack Obama and against Donald Trump. -- Rudy Giuliani
- I was young. I was 23 or 24. I just wasn't a fan of the politics of campaigning - of going into that environment and competing and trying to get into the good graces of the writers. -- Simon Helberg
- There are many refugees, if not more refugees inside the country than outside the country. There is also the question of working to aid us at the present moment when we are campaigning for elections. -- Robert Mugabe
- Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency. -- Hugh Sidey
- When campaigning, be swift as the wind; in leisurely march, majestic as the forest; in raiding and plundering, like fire; in standing, firm as the mountains. As unfathomable as the clouds, move like a thunderbolt. -- Sun Tzu
- 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
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