Gary Hart Quotes

The hardest thing about a presidential election is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Americans no longer gather in the streets to hear candidates; television is the new focal point of politics.

Television has supplanted people as the only audience that campaigners are interested in.

I think the best campaigns are campaigns of ideas and substance.

I think I know a lot about campaigns.

Political campaigns are only a slightly more polite form of ground battle.

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

Politics is television and whoever masters it is likely to win.

Campaigns maybe encourage us to pay attention to attributes that maybe aren't that important in the presidency.

I have been a close observer of campaign trends.

Pre-poll and exit polls have now become a commercial proposition. No longer are they viewed as means for a debate or means for enriching the voters and improving the quality of political campaigns. They have become yet another way of manipulation.

We talked about various aspects of what we wanted to talk about, Hillary [Clinton] and [Donald] Trump and down-ballot stuff, various issues. One of the things that it showed was you've got to use fear.

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

It's hard running for office when people can't say your name.

I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.

In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take your issues to voters, and you put them out there, and people respond, or they don't.

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.

When you're putting together a campaign for president, like I've been, that entails a lot of time. It's not like I've been at the beach sipping a pina colada.

The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over.

I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right.

Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

People can expect to see a lot of me - I'm not too proud to stand on corners and hold my campaign signs.

Klandidate

I have serious doubts about the value of debates in a presidential election. They tend to be a test of reaction time rather than a genuine exposition of the participants' philosophies and programs

Smilin' for the Presidency