Murray Chotiner Quotes

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

Sure those quotations were irrelevant, but we had one objective: to keep him [Sinclair] from becoming Governor. But because he was a good man, we were sorry we had to do it that way.

President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do.

There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.

For an office-seeker [candidate], sticks and stones are greatly to be preferred to an adhesive adjective.

Mudslinging – In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point.

It wouldn’t hurt to remind the voters of what scoundrels your opponents are and to smear them at every opportunity….

In a political campaign, you take your position; you stay strong with it. And the Clinton campaign put out tons of stuff that was not true about Donald Trump and who President Trump is.

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

Republicans in the South could not win elections by talking about issues. You had to make the case that the other guy, the other candidate, was a bad guy.

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

I don't think its particularly smart [in a campaign] to spend your time responding to the other candidate.

In a national campaign you are driven to negativism.

Negative campaigning is wrong.

I would not want to be a politician... Let me tell you this: If I was campaigning, and I go against my opponent and he started attacking my character, and I leap over the table and choke him unconscious, would that help my campaign?

Karen Handel has run a 100 percent negative campaign.

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.

The Obama campaign was smarter, quicker on their feet than the Clinton camp.

Just a few months ago in the Republican primary Mitt Romney said to his opponents, who he was crushing at the time, stop whining. And I think that's a good message for the Romney campaign. Instead of whining about what the Obama campaign is saying, why don't you just put the facts out there and let people decide rather than trying to hide them.

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

I have never run a negative political ad in my life.

Anyone who thinks that negative campaigning is a modern invention has never read the nineteenth century press

Slander strongly and some will stick.

I'm not the inventor of negative campaigning, but I'm an ardent practitioner.