#campaigns

In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history. ↗

— Mark Shields

#bush #campaigns #citizens #contributions #election

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work. ↗

— Mark Shields

#often #problem #smear #too #work

You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#breaks #campaigning #campaigns #cost #dinner

The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#campaigns #candidate #candidates #case #contributing

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#campaigns #games #like #meaningful #most

No, sir, I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell. ↗

— Rosser Reeves

#charming #copy #i #just #saying

If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We're averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign, and trying to ward off these seven- or eight-figure checks on the other side. That disparity is pretty striking, and so are the implications. In many ways, we're back in the Gilded Age. We have robber barons buying the government. ↗

— David Axelrod

#democrats #donations #fund-raising #gilded-age #government

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end. ↗

— Chris Christie

#always #beginning #campaigns #different #end

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#campaigns #haul #long #long haul #making

The tours are campaigns. ↗

— Zakk Wylde

#tours