Top 205 Campaigning Quotes & Sayings

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

I always say that campaigning and governing are two different things.

Guilt by association is part of campaigning.

I am actively campaigning for 'chest hair' to become an Olympic sport.

Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.

Gray Davis got some good news this week: the Clintons are out here in California campaigning for him. Actually, Hillary is campaigning for Davis, Bill is out here for Larry Flynt.

Campaigning for Congress is an issue of conviction, and there is no element of any personal gain in it.

I have had 20 months of campaigning.

You're really earning the support of New Hampshire voters, and you've got to do that one-on-one grassroots campaigning here, even if you have the most money.

Getting political representation is important, but change comes through using direct action, campaigning, and trade unions.

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.

Campaigning is different from governing.

My earliest memory campaigning was going to the dump to get petition signatures or handing out literature.

But he's looking for love in all the wrong places. Like fancy under catalogs At least he knows enough not to date while he's campaigning

I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills.

Campaigning means talking to people in the street, it's important.

Doing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do.

I step out for campaigning only after I complete my pooja at home, which is something I do every day.

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

My husband is absolutely opposed to any negative campaigning at all.

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

If you're campaigning against ObamaCare, but you're also having to defend yourself for closing the government, that seems to take away the asset from you.

I loved campaigning for Obama.

Campaigning ain't tough.

Negative campaigning is wrong.

Barack Obama is uniquely qualified to speak about the knowledge, experience and temperament that the presidency requires. And I know he is raring to get out there and start campaigning and I really look forward to campaigning with him.

I've been campaigning for 17 of the last 24 months. I'm ready to legislate and not campaign.

It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies.

There's a very big difference between campaigning and governing.

I think most people would be surprised at the length of the day whilst you're campaigning and then the variety of things that you do and you're asked to do.

The truth is, the 'Fortune' 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning.

I felt blessed by the existence of Horace Porter's 'Campaigning With Grant.'

Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

It is only because of the love of masses that I am campaigning for the SP.

I went on the road with Hillary Rodham Clinton when she was out campaigning.

Politics lasts only so long - though today it's getting harder to tell where the campaigning stops and the governing begins.

I've never seen the kind of enthusiasm at the grassroots that I see campaigning with or for Donald Trump.

I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning.

Bernie Sanders is usually speaking to the converted. He fires them up. It`s a completely different style of campaigning that he`s allergic to.

I'm not against T.V. advertising for campaigns, but we need to emphasize field campaigning much more than we do.

In Indian communities, it's a separate sovereign government, so you have to get permission from the tribal leadership before you can start campaigning on their land.

British civil society has a fantastic record of campaigning to push politicians of all colours and countries to step up on climate.

In the old days I'd like to have been a politician, when I think the world was more idealistic. When I was young I did a lot of campaigning.

Newt Gingrich was campaigning at a zoo this week and he was bitten by a penguin. Newt Gingrich is always campaigning at zoos. Mitt Romney once did a photo op at a zoo. That was a big mistake, because he stood next to the chameleon, and HE changed colors.

The cost of campaigning has skyrocketed in recent years because of the falloff in TV viewership. With only one-third as many people watching TV as did 20 years ago, politicians have responded by buying three times as many ads, driving the cost of campaigning to levels which only favored candidates can afford.

I loved campaigning.

Bernie Sanders is a serious person with a lifetime of consistent campaigning on principle.

I stand alongside everyone campaigning for better pay and conditions - they are paving the way for a fairer society.

George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates - except for Dean and Kucinich - are campaigning.

I believe I can lead this party from the front as a campaigning organization.

Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

I have been very aggressively campaigning on Kansas needs to cut its taxes.

Since 2007 I have been campaigning for the BJP pan-India.

Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.

You know, Barack Obama the last ten days was traveling overseas campaigning in Europe and everywhere. It was so successful, campaigning abroad, that he is actually thinking about campaigning here in the United States.

I believe in campaigning for health care, not warfare.

Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.

People spend money on negative campaigning because it works.

Halloween is a day when we all get to fool people into thinking we're someone else. Or as Mitt Romney calls it, campaigning.