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The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work. -- Mark Shields
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed. -- John Rawls
The tours are campaigns. -- Zakk Wylde
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. -- Mario Cuomo
John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign. -- Mark Shields
Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting. -- Rich Lowry
I want to do other things like more fashion campaigns. -- Katie Price
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign. -- Woodrow Wilson
Campaigns and primaries can get ugly. There are always messy squabbles. -- Joy-Ann Reid
Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons. -- Tony Snow
Unless a product becomes outmoded, a great campaign will not wear itself out. -- Rosser Reeves
You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign. -- Donna Shalala
Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there. -- Frank Bruni
We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment. -- Margaret Thatcher
A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision. -- Donna Brazile
Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear. -- John Doolittle
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable. -- Walter Bagehot
Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns. -- David Ogilvy
The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over. -- Mike Rounds
A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad. -- William Bernbach
Campaigns are no longer high-minded exchanges of ideas, even though God knows we need more good ones - ideas, that is. -- Charlie Pierce
People can expect to see a lot of me - I'm not too proud to stand on corners and hold my campaign signs. -- Albert Wynn
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. -- John W. Gardner
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. -- Oscar Ameringer
Campaigns are conducted specifically because of the Electoral College, and people accept it and they understand it. Whether they know it or not, they accept it. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Campaigns are conducted specifically because of the Electoral College, and people accept it and they understand it. Whether they know it or not, they accept it. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase. -- Bob Beauprez
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
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
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
Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote. -- James Surowiecki
It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea. -- David Ogilvy
Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one. -- Bill Murray
If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns. -- Djimon Hounsou
What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul. -- Calvin Trillin
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
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
Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins. -- Joe Klein
The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns. -- Richard Roeper
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
A CBS spokesman said the network's policy was tightened in September 2006 to forbid contributions to political campaigns. Previously, there was a bit of wiggle room. -- Bill Dedman
No, sir, I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell. -- Rosser Reeves
The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized. -- Katherine Dunn
China's one-child policy punishes families for having 'out-of-plan' children, resulting in sex-selective abortion and tens of millions of 'missing girls' as well as forced abortion and sterilization campaigns. -- Chris Smith
There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success. -- Jim Hightower
We in the Hispanic community are truly tired of both the Democrats and the Republicans promising all of these things during the campaigns and then forgetting about it after the campaigns are over. -- Jorge Ramos
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
Most campaigns rely on photographs because the moment you do something that is a graphic interpretation where any artistic license has been taken, I think a lot of people are scared that it's going to be perceived as propaganda. -- Shepard Fairey
We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions. -- Eric Liu
I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind. -- Brian Eno
My elections are really not about campaigns. I tell my people that these are about a movement. And a movement to do what? To restore common sense. A movement to do things like provide economic growth. And a movement not to let anybody be behind. -- John Kasich
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I. -- Barack Obama
More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized. -- Simon Mainwaring
Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy them do not survive because they observe the niceties of law. Subversives who shape world events by covert action and violence work in shadows and detest the light of day. -- Stephen Kinzer
I would say, as an entrepreneur everything you do - every action you take in product development, in marketing, every conversation you have, everything you do - is an experiment. If you can conceptualize your work not as building features, not as launching campaigns, but as running experiments, you can get radically more done with less effort. -- Eric Ries
Small blogs are starting up big campaigns. -- Jessica Valenti
I think I know a lot about campaigns. -- Jenna Bush
Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games. -- Alastair Campbell
Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting. -- Nicolas Gomez Davila
I don't often get involved with campaigns at all. -- Sam Altman
Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns. -- Mark Shields
Never let your campaigns write cheques that your website can't cash. -- Avinash Kaushik
I think the people running climate change denial campaigns are sociopaths. -- Lucy Lawless
The problem isn't too little money in political campaigns, but not enough. -- Newt Gingrich
The worst terrorist crimes going on right now are the drone campaigns. -- Noam Chomsky
In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns. -- Sun Tzu
Britney Spears is definitely my favorite past Candie's girl; her campaigns were gorgeous. -- Lea Michele
I like Valentino a lot - they never use actresses in their campaigns. -- Emma Watson
You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns. -- Stephen Harper
Social media marketers have already shown unusual savvy in executing campaigns in Brazil. -- Ryan Holmes
I'm completely opposed to the idea of becoming accustomed to foreign military campaigns. -- Guido Westerwelle
Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy. -- Geraldine Ferraro
Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all. -- Thomas More
Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises. -- Teresa Heinz
For years, many public health campaigns that aimed at changing habits have been failures. -- Charles Duhigg
Remember, at the end of the day [election] campaigns are always about the candidates. -- Chris Christie
Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns. -- Jeff Goodell
I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns. -- Laurance Rockefeller
Ad campaigns are necessary for competition. But good PR educates people; that's all it is. -- Steve Jobs
Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time. -- Carly Fiorina
I have no more campaigns to run. I know because I won both of them. -- Barack Obama
A lot of times when people are on campaigns, it can be like a movie set. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Shockingly enough, what people say during campaigns is meant to increase the odds they get elected. -- Richard N. Haass
AAB actively campaigns to reduce aggression and counter bullying by creating peaceful campaigns such as Cyberkind. -- Louise Burfitt-Dons
My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man. -- Beau Willimon
When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and notcampaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars. -- Steven Pressfield
In fact, not only do I support eliminating soft money, but I support full public financing for campaigns. -- Barbara Lee
Increasingly, it's actresses doing the big fashion advertising campaigns, and now there's no distinction between actresses and models. -- Romola Garai
It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy. -- Elizabeth Warren
I see the work the pope has to do. It is a huge responsibility. Nobody campaigns for it. -- Angelo Scola
People are moping around and I think campaigns can be about lifting the spirits of the American people. -- Jeb Bush
There were times (during my early campaigns) when I thought, "You know what I could really use? A wife." -- Sarah Palin
History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse. -- Eric Alterman
People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory. -- Richard Gere
I love marketing a lot, and I'm very creative when it comes to developing ideas for shows or publicity campaigns. -- Jaime Camil
In the national security establishment, it is somewhat frowned upon for people to take extremely harsh partisan roles in campaigns. -- John Heilemann
Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change. -- Barack Obama
As a veteran of many campaigns, I know how important it is not let up in the last few days. -- Nicola Sturgeon
Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy. -- Walter Cronkite
I definitely learned about the inner workings of campaigns enough to know that I'm glad that I'm not in politics. -- Constance Zimmer
It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars. -- Noam Chomsky
I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money. -- Stephen Pagliuca
I started acting as a kid and doing advertising campaigns. I was probably 8 years old, and I really liked the attention. -- Michiel Huisman
Shop smarter and shop less. But please don't let that dissuade you from engaging in campaigns to make real lasting change. -- Annie Leonard
Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives." -- Ron Fournier
If you knew how much information the campaigns had on you, you'd turn off your machines. And I mean that literally. -- Joe Trippi
Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives. -- Ron Fournier
Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off. -- Charles Krauthammer
I do think that campaigns are about electing somebody, but they're also about a discussion of the future of our country. -- Nancy Pelosi
I am sent on assignments just like guys. I have covered presidential campaigns, natural disasters, tragedies, red carpets, medical stories and more. -- Megan Alexander
Increasingly, campaigns have become narcotics that blur our awareness of problems long enough to elect the lawmakers who must deal with them. -- Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Thanks to the tabloid campaigns I have many death threats and I was very pleased to get another one the other day. -- Tony Benn
In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Here's why most campaigns get data wrong. They treat it as an afterthought and they treat it as sort of a logistic. -- Ted Cruz
You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
From the 3rd century onwards, orthodox Christianity, based on a Hebrew story and worshipping the Jew Jesus, also led many campaigns of anti-Semitism. -- Ivor Grattan-Guinness
I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held. -- Judy Woodruff

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