Campaign Pledges Quotes

Americans are used to the clatter of campaign promises hitting ground as they are thrown out the window.

Candidates run for election on campaign promises, but once they're elected they renege on those promises, which happened with President [Barack] Obama on Guantánamo, the surveillance programs and investigating the crimes of the Bush administration. These were very serious campaign promises that were not fulfilled.

From my experience with 5 presidential elections, candidates sometimes say things when campaigning that they don't necessacerily do when they are governing.

Both candidates for president talk about balancing the budget ten years from now. Even if they win, they won't be in office then.

Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.

We will build a great wall. We are going to drain the swamp.

I'm the one who will not raise taxes. My opponent now says he'll raise them as a last resort, or a third resort. But when a politician talks like that, you know that's one resort he'll be checking into. My opponent, my opponent won't rule out raising taxes. But I will. And The Congress will push me to raise taxes and I'll say no. And they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again, and I'll say, to them, Read my lips: no new taxes.

Hillary Clinton are going to raise taxes and Donald Trump and I are going to cut them.

Every Republican that I know of ran on the full repeal of Obamacare...The voters have spoken.

The good and the bad news is that politicians rarely do what they say they are going to do when they campaign.

If you go back and you look at the presidency over the course of history, presidents tend to do what they campaigned on. In the 20th century, presidents between Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter accomplished 73 percent of the things that they said they would do as candidates. Part of that is because once they get into office, their credibility, their ability to do anything depends on doing the things that they said they would.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

I believe that politicians should implement the promises that they've given in manifestos.

For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it.

I said during the course of the campaign I didn't like it and I don't like the idea of having an opponent's picture on your ads and it would be nice to see candidates sign a pledge like that.

Donald Trump must be taken seriously. He is fulfilling his dangerous campaign promises.

The Republicans have, with some pride - George W. Bush won the White House by promising to restore dignity to the Oval Office. And they were or presented themselves as the family - the party of family values.

If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises".

It's not a big deal, but it's quite noticeable and obvious to me, and it's a little hypocritical, and it's a little contradictory. Here we have all of these Republicans in the House and the Senate - not all, but I mean a majority who, for seven years, ran on repealing and replacing Obamacare. They promised, seven years. When it was time to reelect, time to campaign, promised. Now they run the House and they run the Senate, and they can't come up with a bill. Isn't it amazing?

Candidates have been telling you that if elected they would 'pull you from this bog hole of financial misery.' Now is a good chance to get even with 'em, by electing 'em, just to prove what a liar they are.