John Dickerson Quotes

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

I think I know a lot about campaigns.

Smilin' for the Presidency

I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.

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

The people who run campaigns today have more iron control over the campaign than they did 20 or 30 years ago.

Political campaigns are only a slightly more polite form of ground battle.

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

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

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

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

Campaigns are about adjustments.

I traveled the country for a year and a half helping Hillary Clinton to try to become president.

If a statesman is one who looks to the next generation and a politician one who looks to the next election, a political consultant must be one who looks to the next tracking poll.

To win a successful campaign against an opponent that has a lot more name recognition and a lot more money, I have to be edgy.

I still say save your money, don't waste your money or time running against Donald Trump in 2020 because you're not going to beat him.

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.

I definitely learned about the inner workings of campaigns enough to know that I'm glad that I'm not in politics.

I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.

The thing that Tea Parties have to understand, you can't govern if you don't get elected.

You're really earning the support of New Hampshire voters, and you've got to do that one-on-one grassroots campaigning here, even if you have the most money.

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level and have run campaigns or have been deeply involved in grass roots political campaigns and who have actual hands-on experience.

I have got everything which a politician needs.

As I get close to my election, I want to spend more time in my district and focus on my reelection.