#campaign

I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions. ↗

— George McGovern

#campaign #cast #constantly #cut #eye

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections. ↗

— George McGovern

#campaigning #convinced #elections #negative #off

It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#before #brought #campaign #carter #complicated

This election isn't about Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. It's about you. The other guys write $10 million checks and make $10,000 bets. But we've bet this campaign on you. ↗

— Jim Messina

#barack #barack obama #bet #bets #campaign

Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#being #both #campaign #crush #designed

In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall. ↗

— Laura Miller

#campaign #city #city hall #cleaning #ethics

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 record that I'm so very, very proud of, and no campaign is going to take that away. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#campaign #going #i #proud #record

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it. ↗

— Ann Richards

#had #i #knew #notion #pretty

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio. ↗

— Ann Richards

#had #i #knew #notion #pretty