Election Strategies Quotes

During the last 20 years the advent of radio changed all the old rules of political campaigning( Now the successful advent of television, available for the first time this year in a presidential campaign, must again influence the planning of the campaign

I think the age of the modern media campaign has created a new icon, the celebrity-in-chief. Political elections have become wars fought by candidates with opposing values.

Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.

I've never, in my whole 30 years in office, run a negative ad.

I'm not the inventor of negative campaigning, but I'm an ardent practitioner.

Democrats are very good at governing. When it comes to messaging, I'm not too sure about.

First, he demands votes; second, he asks for votes; third, he begs for them; fourth, he weeps for them.

Political campaigns are only a slightly more polite form of ground battle.

There has never been a campaign where there hasn't been sniping from the outside and second-guessing. I hear the same sometimes from the Democratic side in terms of President Obama's campaign, so that's to be expected.

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

Re-election campaigns of sitting presidents are always about the sitting president.

I think film promotion has become really important in today's time. PM Narendra Modi also felt the need to do campaigning. If he doesn't do that, then nobody will give vote to him.

When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for inspiration.

The infamous political ads like Carly Fiorina's 'Demon Sheep' and Christine O'Donnell's 'I Am Not a Witch' are so confusing, it's almost like they were paid for by Democrats.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

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

Despite all the public hand-wringing about negative advertising, political veterans will tell you that it persists because, more often than not, it works. But tearing down the other guy has another attraction: It can be a substitute for building much of a case for what the mudslinger will do once in office.

Many people vote a straight party line from the president down to city council. Hollywood publicists need to think long and hard about who they are putting forward to lead their awards season campaigns.

The Democrats always scream 'racism' at a Republican contender in any field across the country.

It is increasingly difficult to run a campaign of substance in an atmosphere which increasingly focuses on personality.

I have serious doubts about the value of debates in a presidential election. They tend to be a test of reaction time rather than a genuine exposition of the participants' philosophies and programs

I've been around long enough to not take seriously statements like I am about to be crushed. I'm about how do we seek re-election of the Australian government, how we prevent Tony Abbott from being elected. The bottom line is that it should be all hands to the pump rather than saying other, frankly negative and internally divisive things.

Its [the Bush family’s] sense of how to win elections comes out of a CIA manual, not out of the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution

I know why politicians want to go on TV: that's where really old people are. And old people vote.

Campaigns maybe encourage us to pay attention to attributes that maybe aren't that important in the presidency.