Maria Bartiromo Quotes

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.

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.

I went on the road with Hillary Rodham Clinton when she was out campaigning.

This could be a close election. I can pretty much tell which states are going to be close. If you would start two or three weeks before Election Day and saturate those critical states with [TV Advertising] spots, it could swing the election.

The minute you announce as a candidate, your opponents go on a deep sea fishing expedition for your sins.

I’m Mrs. Jimmy Carter and I thought you might want to interview me.

In my campaign, people and their needs come before everything else.

President James Buchanan's margin of victory in the election was fifty thousand dollars.

You can’t win a Presidential election in this country with just a base.

In the 1972 election campaign the citizen would be the victim of the most sophisticated sales blizzard ever inflicted on any voting population anywhere.

Without television, Richard Nixon would not have a chance. He would not have a prayer of being elected because the press would not let him get through to the people.

… the most famous ad produced in the history of political television

Each of the participants [in a Presidential Debate] has a major objective and a minor one, in addition, of course, to appearing presidential. The major one is to get his messages across even if the questions don’t ask for them. The minor one is to avoid seeming unresponsive. That is why you will see the debaters answer some of the questions quickly, leaving time for what the candidate wants to talk about.

The tactics and strategy of every Presidential election campaign is most influenced by the previous Presidential election.

The people have nominated you without any pledges or engagements of any sort … and they want you to do nothing at present but allow yourself to be elected…. Make no speeches, write no letters as a candidate, enter into no pledges, make no promises.

There is not alternative to speechwriters. You can’t run for president and write your own speeches.

Unfortunately it has come to pass that we choose our Presidents because of their vote-getting qualities in certain doubtful states rather than for their qualifications for the office they are to fill.

People lose their sense of humor in [presidential] campaigns.

You can't win an election unless you have a message.

I was in the category of people who thought that his [Bernie Sanders ]campaign was worthy, even noble and it would push Hillary [Clinton] to the left.

Defeating Hillary Clinton in a campaign unlike anything we've seen in our lifetimes.

Hillary Clinton needs to address the racist undertones of her 2008 campaign.

Hillary Clinton has said numerous times in this campaign, "If Congress doesn't act to end the plague of gun violence in America," that she will do so by executive action. Now, what is she going to do?

I'm one of the many people who has said that the Hillary Clinton we know in private was effective, strong, courageous, and funny. And the campaigner we saw was less so, more scripted. Many people have made that observation, and it was my observation, too, but I'm grateful for what she did.

I don't make any apologies for what I do on the campaign trail.