#campaign

The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#campaigns #congressional #cost #every #four

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one. ↗

— Bill Murray

#anyone #awards #campaigns #disdain #get

I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge. ↗

— Ben Nelson

#campaign finance #campaign finance reform #certainly #challenge #constitutional

I have a small Thai boy who dresses me and every year I let him pick what campaign I am going to work on. It saves me having to worry about it and, bless him, it makes him feel involved in the struggle for global liberation. ↗

— Mark Thomas

#am #bless #boy #campaign #dresses

I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs? ↗

— Rand Paul

#contribute #hate #i #jobs #just

During the last campaign I knew what was happening. You know, they mocked me for my foreign policy and they laughed at my monetary policy. No more. No more. ↗

— Ron Paul

#during #foreign #foreign policy #happening #i

Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign. ↗

— Colin Powell

#defining #down #economy #get #got

Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats or close general elections. That must be good for democracy. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#close #democracy #effect #effectively #elections

I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#baby #campaign #commuting #ed #election

In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving very small amounts of money through ticket sales and raffle prizes: yes, it's much harder work than big donations, but I think it's a more democratic and transparent way of fundraising. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#big #campaigning #cash #democratic #dinners