Bernie Sanders Quotes

Wow. Ted Cruz falsely suggested Marco Rubio mocked the bible and was just forced to fire his communications director. More dirty tricks.

Negative politics in a primary campaign produces damaged goods but you've got to do what you've got to do.

It wouldn’t hurt to remind the voters of what scoundrels your opponents are and to smear them at every opportunity….

If you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.

If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.

Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.

Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive.

Governor George Pataki has built a record to run from, not to run on.

If politicians throwing mud begin to slip in it, perhaps they will head for higher ground.

We learned early that when dirty campaign tactics are used against you, you respond, pivot and then deck them.

I think the boy [Richard Nixon] should be attacked, but frontally, not obliquely.... Reference was made to lampoons and satires in times past. What we did not discuss was whether they were successful. Did Swift ever win an election? ... The more I think of it the less convinced I am that it is a good, meaning effectual, plan at all. We need direct attacks-- kidney punch zingers, like “Nixon plays both sides of the gutter” or “Part Boy Scout and part scorpion” … All of these are dirty, but as I said, the man who tries Queensberry against gutter fighting is going to get the hell kicked out of him.

I'm not going to get down in the gutter with DeSantis and Trump - there's enough of that going on.

You've got to attract interest in your candidate. The problem when you're running far behind is that you've got to move through those positive phases very quickly. Then, you have to draw attention to the other guy. You've got to create interest in why you differ from him and you've got to create a desire to remove him.

They don't want to get dirty and they know that Trump loves this kind of thing. And your polls, and yours are what's giving them the material that they need, it's the oxygen that the Trump campaign requires, a poll every three or four days showing him where he is.

I think if Donald Trump skipped out on a debate, for whatever reason he gave, I don't think it would help him at all.

I even believe [Donald Trump] won a little after - after the election rethinking, I think if we'd spent a little more time in Minnesota, we would've won Minnesota.

The most effective way to beat Hillary Clinton is to remind voters of Hillary Clinton's behavior.

I do think Hillary Clinton should have pivoted and say, I am change, I am change, because people do want some change.

When it comes on politics, one of the reasons I never ever run, I could never say those kinds of things about someone else, and I would never want to be the target of something like that. I don't think it's necessary.

While Jeb Bush finds himself mired in the muck of an intramural fight in his own party over his remarks about the Iraq War, Hillary Clinton is sticking to the low-key strategy, and it looks like it's working.

I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.

It wasn't the first time. This happened to Dennis Kucinich. It happened to Jesse Jackson. They did it even to Howard Dean, creating the Dean scream. This is how they [democrats] work.

So, I think it's important for us to be careful about the language we use, which is why I've been critical of Donald Trump. Disparaging women, disparaging hispanics, that's not a sign of strength. Making fun of disabled people... We're never going to win elections if we don't have a more broader unifying message.

Unfortunately, every American citizen takes the same position... that we don’t like negative advertisements. But they work! And, as you see, many a candidate has prevailed by tearing down the reputation of an opponent in a more advantageous position.

We do know that [Hillary Clinton] was probably attacked and smeared as much as any candidate ever has been. We know that.