Reid Ribble Quotes

It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives.

Unless you are a prohibitive front-runner, an unanswered smear is believed.

Negative politics in a primary campaign produces damaged goods but you've got to do what you've got to do.

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

A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.

I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work

There was a slow-motion swift boating of Hillary Clinton in '15.

One of the most overused phrases in political commentary is that someone is running a 'negative' campaign filled with 'attack' ads.

In the last few days, I have been the victim of a campaign of slander and shameful lies, a campaign which has deeply shocked and hurt me. Enough is enough.

Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

If the primary ends up being a hard hitting, bloody battle, well so be it. Let's get ready for the general election

No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who generally comes from the pack and wins, if you're going to win. And that's where I'm coming from.

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Today we live in a cash-for-trash world. Anyone can stand up and say anything unkind, unfair or completely untrue about you, and then they are rewarded financially for it ... because life is unfair.

The Republican I ran against, at the end of the campaign, had decided that I was "a friend of terrorists" and "a friend of pedophiles." That's the kind of crap they came out with. I expect that's the kind of crap they'll come out with again.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.