Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

A political campaign is a movement. It's built around a single candidate. It will evaporate when he or she gets elected.

Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates - they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can't blame them for that.

Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.

For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

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

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

Smilin' for the Presidency

As important as issues are, as important as money is ..., you've got to have good candidates.

If you can’t run against a political candidate, run against his campaign manager.

Fotball strategy does not originate in a scrimmage. It is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

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

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

Hillary had never run for office before, but she decided to give it a try. She began her campaign the way she always does new things, by listening and and learning. And after a tough battle, New York elected her to the seat once held by another outsider, Robert Kennedy.

I am the first to admit that I am not the greatest campaign strategist or political analyst.

Campaigns are about adjustments.

It's about going to where your voters are.

One of the rules of running for Congress is no matter where you go, you speak like you're speaking to the whole district.

I made it clear that I can run a positive campaign and do it better.

I think that if the Democratic Party focuses on nominating who will make the best president, that's going to be a critical mistake. There's only one question at the end of the day, and that question is, Can the potential nominee beat Donald Trump?

Remember, I'm not running against Rick Perry; I'm running against apathy.

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

I'm running [ for presidency] because we need to take our country back.

In a year of re-election he was desperate to impress.