Campaign Goals Quotes

Every campaign is unique.

You can't be the candidate and the campaign manager.

We have got to lose the primary in order to win the general.

Campaigns are not for educating. They're for linking up with the public mood.

People are moping around and I think campaigns can be about lifting the spirits of the American people.

I'm not running my campaign for the press. I'm running it for voters. I totally respect the press and what the press has to do.

I'm always wanting to spread as much positivity as possible, so I really try to keep that the case with my fans and with the campaigns that I do.

As the race for president tightens, Hillary Clinton's campaign hopes to win over millions of people who voted for Bernie Sanders in the primaries.

It is a simple reality that even as he [President Barack Obama] is a candidate for reelection, he continues to be President of the United States, and the demands of the job restrict his capacity in some instances to focus entirely on the campaign. He simply cannot do that. So he and we carefully allocate his time working with the campaign.

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

I fully expect to be able to complete one more campaign goal - and that is to proudly report that signs have been erected as you enter our great state that say 'Welcome to Wild, Wonderful West Virginia: Open for Business!'

It is clear that many of [Republicans] do not want to try to keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House. So if it's not important to keep her out of the White House, why is it important to elect you?

Political candidates are always looking to capture the future.

A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.

And that was always our plan. Do well in the first three states, and then compete and have a very strong night on Super Tuesday. I think we're ideally positioned to do exactly that.

A central task for any campaign is to develop a narrative: a short, simple story explaining where we are, how we got here and where we need to go.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

On Election Day, Ralph Nader will appear on the presidential ballot in only 45 states. Yeah, Nader said, this is really disappointing, I wanted to embarrass myself in all 50 states. That was the plan.

Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates - they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can't blame them for that.

Tens of thousands of men and women with kids to raise, bills to pay, and dreams that won't die. This is your campaign.

My goal is not to win a straw poll that doesn't mean something. It's to win the election that means everything for the future of the country.

When you are a coordinated partner, you are, in effect, on the campaign staff. You can talk to the whole staff and have virtually no limits on what you can discuss and strategize around. When you are an independent friend of the campaign, you are not allowed to strategize with the campaign on their political decisions.

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

I made it clear that I can run a positive campaign and do it better.

When something like this hits you in a campaign, you have to decide how you're going to respond, and we had a novel idea. What if, instead of responding with partisanship, we responded with a focus on results? What if we ran a campaign that was not about running against someone, but was about bringing people together behind a common vision? And so we decided to respond not with a negative ad but with something people find even sexier -- data points. And so we emphasized things like increasing per capita income in our city, increasing our city's population, and we stuck to those relentlessly, throughout the campaign, always bringing it back to those things by which our voters could measure, in a very transparent way, how we were doing, and hold me accountable if I got elected.