Political Campaigns Quotes

Be not surprised that I am turned politician. The whole town is immersed in politics.

The people are always worsted in an election.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Bill Clinton, Mr. Bob Dole, You too old to understand tha way tha game is told.

I've run my whole campaign on putting Georgians first, and I'm going to continue to do that, unlike Ms. Abrams, who wants to give the HOPE scholarship and free college tuition to those who are here illegally.

Politics is the entertainment industry for ugly people!

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.

I think behavioral economists don't have any more of an explanation about the rise of Trump than anyone else.

I've never been a surrogate for Bernie, Hillary, or the DNC.

Law of Diminishing Returns: As the popularity of a candidate approaches zero, the probability that he or she will release a wildly bizarre video approaches 1.

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

There are three things that are important in politics today: money, money and money.

The most misguided, naïve, uninformed, egregious decision of the United States Supreme Court … in the 21st century. To somehow view money as not having a corrupting effect on an election flies in the face of reality. I just think that just one of the five had run for county sheriff. I guarantee you … there will be scandals. There is too much money washing around political campaigns today, and it will take scandals and maybe the Supreme Court will go back and revisit this issue

I've had many conversations with the Clinton family. We're friends. It's hard, very tough. I think on Election Day, everybody felt pretty good. I think the Trump campaign thought they were gonna lose.

All politics is local.

When I started 'NOTA,' I didn't know a thing about Tamil politics.

Candidates who went into an election with negatives higher than 30 or 40 points just inevitably lost.... Drive up the opposition's negatives.

[On political campaigns:] Get an elbow, give an elbow.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, good liberals both, pursued power by offering their candidacies as opportunities for Americans to document their innocence of the nation's past.

Eventually, money wins in politics.

Certainly we're going to continue to see those commercials that I call 30-second drive-by shootings. And they're going to have a lot of money to do it. But we're going to combat it.

Michigan is a state we should have won in 2016, and we didn't, and I want to understand why.

I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.

I don't think I'm meant for politics and don't even know the 'P' of it.

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.