Kim Campbell Quotes

Campaigns are about adjustments.

Trump was doing very well on a model that made sense, but now, as the campaign has gotten to the end stages, a more traditional campaign has to take place.

This could be a close election. I can pretty much tell which states are going to be close. If you would start two or three weeks before Election Day and saturate those critical states with [TV Advertising] spots, it could swing the election.

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

You should be strenuous in seeing as many people as possible every day of every possible class and order, for from the mere numbers of these you can make a guess of the amount of support you will get on the balloting

Don't fall in love with the map. The map doesn't win elections.

We're doing everything we can to solidify my base of support in the 4th Congressional district.

If I'm sure of a person and his potential in politics, and if I know he will live up to his promises, I wouldn't mind campaigning for him. I believe in the dictum, 'never say never.' You never know, I might end up joining politics.

I have never run campaigns based on an ethnic coalition.

I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

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.

Smilin' for the Presidency

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

It sounds good to say you're going to campaign everywhere, but ultimately you have to make choices.

Political candidates are always looking to capture the future.

The reason I lost the Governor’s race to Patterson is that I was out niggered. No one is ever going to out nigger me again.

In a national campaign you are driven to negativism.

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

Social media has become a primary factor in political campaigns.

Today, campaigning isn't an 'interruption' but a permanent condition. Indeed, if you are a successful campaigner, it's expected you'll be a successful president.

Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.

It's about going to where your voters are.

If we run the campaign that we plan on running, we think we're going to win.

Candidates, of course, often claim that they want to run 'a purely positive campaign,' but this rarely materializes.