Tucker Carlson Quotes

Despite all the public hand-wringing about negative advertising, political veterans will tell you that it persists because, more often than not, it works. But tearing down the other guy has another attraction: It can be a substitute for building much of a case for what the mudslinger will do once in office.

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

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

Elections are won ... chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

People do not like negative campaigns.

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

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

No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

I hate negative ads in general.

I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it.

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

What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides.

Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

Candidates who went into an election with negatives higher than 30 or 40 points just inevitably lost.... Drive up the opposition's negatives.

The trouble [with modern political campaigns] is that the technicians of the media and the professional campaign advisors believe that the negative commercials and the attack work better.

Odious campaigns are a national tradition, and so is complaining about them.

We’re going to sell Jack like soap flakes. There are no accidents in politics.

Every presidential election I've ever been involved with has been characterized as the dirtiest campaign in history.

Elections aren't just about who votes but who doesn't vote.

For too many years, those eligible to vote in primary or general elections did not bother to do so. Those sensible centrists who do not go to rallies but care deeply about our country effectively silenced their own voices. That sent the message to incumbents that they were either doing the right thing or that we just did not care.

People spend money on negative campaigning because it works.

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

I've got these high negatives because the Koch brothers have spent a year attacking me.

Influencing voters is the crux of all poll campaigns.