Claiborne Pell Quotes

I didn’t think that I would ever get elected. After all, you don’t vote for somebody who is attacking Santa Claus.

I think a fair amount of my votes were 'not-for-Ortiz,' votes and I'm going to have to work hard to earn the 'for Blake' votes.

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?

The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility.

I think people see the social media numbers, and the assumption is made that we're running a campaign that is just social media, but I think we're running a very old-school campaign.

I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney and Obama to debate me. Because I think that both of those guys - I think that the American people are being given a false choice, because the choice between the lesser of two evils is a false choice.

If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.

They're saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger.

And it was, it was not beating George Bush, believe it or not, the bottom line as far as I was concerned was introducing to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

My endorsement of Senator Obama will not be welcome news to my friends and family at the Clinton campaign.

When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around.

John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage.

I could not lose [his gubernatorial race] unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.

Mo [Congressman Morris K. Udall] is too funny to be President.

This cassette (video cassette of Walt Disney's Dumbo) was a documentary of my campaign.

'SNL' has always been known for its ability to skewer politics, and the circus that was Palin's bid to be Vice President was ripe for parody.

I honestly think Derek Jeter could run for mayor in New York, and if not win, get really close, just the way he handled himself.

My legal name is Mulroney Lapham, but politically, 'Mulroney Lapham' just didn't work. Too much for a lawn sign.

During a campaign, the trick is to spend no more than 15 to 30 seconds with anyone and to keep moving so that you not only shake a few hundred hands but also have a thousand people see you doing it.

If I were one of the three viable presidential candidates, I doubt I'd be too broken up about someone looking into my passport file. Go ahead look, I'd say. It's the passport photo I wouldn't want anyone getting his hands on.

If you are funny, people will like you. A lot of advertising is based on this simple rule. The Tory MP Boris Johnson has benefited a lot from it.

Larry Flynt, running for governor of California. His goal - change our state bird to the spread eagle.

The whole celebrity thing didn't work for Hillary Clinton. She tried that in her campaign and it failed.

This is so weird. I saw the new John Kerry campaign commercial and he says, 'I'm John Kerry and I approve of this message - if I have one.'