R. J. Cutler Quotes

John McCain has not been president of the United States. He ran. He ran a spirited campaign. We lost. I hated to see us lose, but there were a lot of things working against us.

The tactics and strategy of every Presidential election campaign is most influenced by the previous Presidential election.

There is not alternative to speechwriters. You can’t run for president and write your own speeches.

I co-managed AOC's campaign alongside Vigie Ramos Rios and also was the one that managed the launch of her initial campaign in 2017.

Donald Trump is running this campaign. And I'm working directly for Donald Trump.

We get so many requests like, 'We want behind-the-scenes access,' or 'We're going to show people what it's really like to be on the campaign with Donald Trump.' But there is just no way that a camera or an episode or a documentary could capture what has gone on.

Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter has filed papers to run for president. But in his official filing, he misspelled the word 'president.' Political experts say it's all part of Hunter's plan to attract Bush supporters.

The [Hillary] Clinton campaign was still operating with a White House mentality.

When you're putting together a campaign for president, like I've been, that entails a lot of time. It's not like I've been at the beach sipping a pina colada.

In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.

But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going to run for president in Florida, I would be the favorite son from Florida, and that would stop Johnson and Kennedy from dividing up the state.

By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year.

When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.

The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

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

The Wendell Willkie campaign sprang from the grassroots of the country clubs of America

Mo Udall wanted to run for president [in 1976] in the worst way ... and he did.

The paid political campaign managers are the problem [with modern campaigns.] They are overpaid for doing the wrong things.

A presidential candidate needs a slogan.

Some have said, 'Gosh, Donald Trump is going to hurt you.' Some have said, 'Gosh Donald Trump is going to help you.' He may be helpful in certain parts of Ohio, but I'm going to run my own campaign.

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

Ted Cruz, when he was running for president, was a huge 'Princess Bride' fan. He would quote the lines and, you know, trying to win families and everything.

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

I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton's run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, 'Well, I think he's going to be the next President of the United States.'

We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate.