Campaign Manager, Campaign Managers, Campaign Management Quotes

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

I was very interested in politics in college and was heading to be a lawyer. I have a degree in economics and I was interested in it. I hadn't really gotten super serious about it and I'd done a lot of student politics in high school. I really think it would be interesting and fun and challenging to go into politics.

If you can't control these rumheads when you're their candidate, how the hell do you expect to control them if you become President?

There's an early 2014 email from Hillary Clinton, not so long after she left the State Department, to her campaign manager John Podesta that states ISIL is funded by the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Now this is the most significant email in the whole collection, and perhaps because Saudi and Qatari money is spread all over the Clinton Foundation.

I've been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perry.

I know the women in the Trump Corporation, have gotten to know them very well recently. Obviously, let the record reflect it was Donald J. Trump who elevated the first female in Republican presidential politics to that role, and then albeit successfully, owing in large part, if not most part, to him, and the campaign that he stewarded.

I would do whatever I could to make Jeremy Corbyn more electable, but you've got to give me something to work with, mate.

You need to earn your spurs through performance, not interviews.

You sell your candidates and your programs the way a business sells its products.

I was through as a manager. I did become involved late in the 1968 campaign at the national scene at the last minute. But I was through as a manager, and I've stayed through, incidentally.

I have no more campaigns to run... I know because I won both of them.

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

I ran two campaigns for governor in a state that's 2-1 Democrat where I did not mention my opponent in print, radio, or television. I don't know if any other politician at a gubernatorial, congressional, or a senatorial level can make the claim.

It’s the [political] consultants’ job to take who the person is—their fixed characteristics—and leverage it.

Politics demands certain skills honed by experience, just as journalism does, just as acting does.

We had the election won. Debates couldn't help us and might hurt.

There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.

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

I love Karl Rove. He elected Bush.

I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign. In my opinion, it was inept.

The campaign can’t be run by 100 outsiders.

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.

We say there are people who have worked in campaigns who say that they have lost some - and we call those folks operatives, managers, strategists, consultants; and then there are people who work in campaigns and say that they have never lost, and we call them liars.

I've been involved in five presidential campaigns, once as national campaign manager for Walter Mondale.

One of the big learnings both out of the referendum, and out of 2017 general election is that parties that don't have a professional network on the ground slightly lose the ability to hear what local people are saying, so we've reestablished our network of campaign managers out in the field.