Kevin de Leon Quotes

Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.

Review" is a great word in politics. It will last you almost an entire election cycle if you play it right.

Campaigning is different from governing.

There's a very big difference between campaigning and governing.

[Democrats] have got to start winning elections. That involves not some great idea, but it also involves recruiting candidates. And Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, who has given obnoxiousness a new definition in his personal behavior, oftentimes in his dealings with the press, had a very good point.

I don't think we do a great job in America any more of distinguishing between campaigns and governance. We live in an environment that's all campaign all of the time and it's helpful, now that we've moved beyond a campaign and an election to get into a governance posture.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Being in politics is like coaching football. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.

When you run a campaign the idea is not to appeal to pundits but to appeal to people.

Campaign trains always give me a little feeling of a busy factory, because so many people are busily engaged in turning out ideas to meet different situations as they arrive. If you sit in the President's car and see streams of people go by and hear him ask the inevitable questions:—"How are things in your state; did the drought do much harm; what are you people counting on to help you in your recovery", and then see him picking up everybody's ideas, discarding some, remolding some into his own speeches, you realize that you are really watching an idea factory at work, through which the American people get a picture of the President's thinking, his character, and his plans for the future.

From my experience with 5 presidential elections, candidates sometimes say things when campaigning that they don't necessacerily do when they are governing.

Politics is power, and communications is power,

Politics is a messy business, but campaigning prepares you for governing. It prepares you to get hit, stand strong, and, if necessary, hit back.

I think the Reagan people are superb marketers. Their whole approach to polling, to television, to the symbolism and the rest approaches genius.

President Obama makes fantastic stump speeches, but putting together an actual agenda is more complicated.

There's an old saying in politics: You never run the same race twice. Democrats are running the same race three, four, five times. It's an old ploy, and Coloradans see through it.

Our job is not to dictate the policies of our candidates or even influence them but simply to articulate them in the most clear and meaningful way to the relevant audience.

Dozens of Democrats appear on Fox News each month. If it were not worth their time and energy to debate, converse and display their experience and governing styles to millions of voters who happen to watch Fox News, wouldn't they all just line up at others' broadcast booths on Capitol Hill?

Campaigning and governing are two very different activities, and there is no reason to assume that how Trump conducted the former will dictate how he approaches the latter.

Over the years, Democrats have had a lot of very talented individuals, but they have lacked fighters.

I always say that campaigning and governing are two different things.

You have to be an optimist to be in politics.

Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.

There's symbolism in politics. There's communication in politics. And I think what Donald Trump is saying is, give me the job, and when I get to that job I will figure it out.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.