Famous Quotes & Sayings

Despite the fact that gifts are not restricted, and despite the fact that contributions to candidates are not restricted, the per-donor contribution is not higher here than it is in other states, and the cost of campaigns is not higher here than it is elsewhere.

Katsuya Okada

Despite running our campaign with our priority on manifestoes and policies, we failed to secure support from the voters,

Ron always knew he was going to have to invest in his own campaign and that's what he's been doing.

Ruling parties don't give up power voluntarily. They have to be defeated at the polls, and they have to be defeated by a better organized, more charismatic leader, a better campaign and even better shady tactics -- whatever it takes.

David Bowers

Pounding the pavement, standing up long hours at events, the kinds of things you have to do in a campaign ... It's definitely disappointing and frustrating. But we'll live to fight another day.

These would include a right to live life free from intimidation and destruction of property by opportunists, as well as the freedom to vote or campaign for political office.

These data show that there's a lot of value to branding. A lot of times when you're trying to promote your product, you may not see immediate results, but in the customer's mind, that campaign may be contributing to some of these bookmark conversion rates later on.

Sean Smith

The senator welcomes him into the race and we look forward to a campaign where we compare the senator's record to Mr. Lamont's record.

That's why an early announcement makes sense. Nobody wants to give to a campaign that may never start.

Paul Johnson

You would have a hard time not listening to those people, ... I'm not saying it would necessarily influence the way a person voted. But it is human nature if a vast majority of your campaign has been paid for by a relatively few number of people who contributed to it, you listen to them.

You've made a sham of the campaign finance law. You could suggest there really are no limits in Florida.

They've coupled a homespun, humorous campaign with high-tech resources. You've got to give them credit. They know what they don't want, and they are willing to take the time and effort to organize and oppose it.

Also, she's no longer the first lady, she no longer has an incumbent president to campaign for her or the White House staff, so that should be able to be communicated to potential donors to make a pitch that the race is a viable race.

This is big. When you vote young, you're much more likely to vote the rest of your life, so the 2004 campaign turned a generation on to politics.

This is a run-of-the mill campaign finance tactic.

Katherine Harris

This is going to be a great campaign. It's going to be a campaign about Florida's future. And we're going to get every single person involved.

This is going to be a for-real campaign for the first time in anyone's memory and the stakes are high.

This is fantastic. It really does validate what we decided to do with the campaign this year, trying different ways to get the message out.

Ken Jenkins

This is definitely going to be fun. I'm looking forward to another spirited campaign where Andrea not only wins but gets the seat this time.

This is an opportunity for citizens to have an impact on campaign practices next year and beyond. We want to learn what people want to look at and what they regard as true or misleading in what they see.

This is an exciting time in our growing civil rights movement for marriage equality. The Marriage Equality Matters campaign demonstrates the power of engaging the public and showing them the reality of marriage equality, rather than right-wing rhetoric and scare tactics. When it comes to opening hearts and minds to fairness and reaching the diverse communities who make up our American landscape seeing is, in fact, believing.

This is an opportunity for these individuals to present themselves and give themselves a distinctive identity with the public, something I don't think either of them has accomplished yet. Right now I think the campaign is that each candidate still has that hurdle and whoever can kind of get over that hurdle could well turn the election in their direction.

This is a top-notch campaign with a real impact. Our work together is making a difference. People are getting the message and exposure to secondhand smoke is dropping in our state.

This is the fourth campaign we've done. Now we'll evaluate how effective it's been.

This is the first Steele-for-Senate campaign ad, as far as I'm concerned. It's clear that the exploratory committee is designed to find new and innovative ways to waste taxpayer money to promote the lieutenant governor.

This is nothing more than a desperate smoke screen. Santorum should take a closer look at his own campaign finances.

This is not a campaign for immigrants. It is a movement for civil rights and defending of common human values.

Scott Harshbarger

This is not the utopian comprehensive solution to campaign finance. But this is a tourniquet to stop the bleeding.

This is something I had as a campaign issue when I was running for office. You make a lot of promises when you?re running for office and I?m trying to make good on that promise by forming this committee.

This isn't particularly different than any other campaign you might run.

This governor is spending $80 million of taxpayer money on an election that voters resoundingly have said is unnecessary. That is the most important figure. The rest is campaign rhetoric.

Paul Robinson

There was no campaign to make (Truth for Youth) a permanent part of this community.

This is the one we like to give most because of the suffering and trials our 91st soldiers went through during that campaign in Italy.