Top 1200 Obama Campaign Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Ted Cruz knew Ben Carson did not leave the campaign.

I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.

There is no law that says a campaign cannot accept information from a foreign government.

There are no points for civility or decency when it comes to prosecuting the campaign against Donald Trump.

I joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the 1980s and protested at Greenham Common.

I am convinced that, despite what you think of Obama, I don't think Obama has a person-to-person connection with people. I think people love him because of his race and feel sorry for him, object of sympathy. I think people feel he's a victim, he portrays himself as a victim of America; he gets sympathy that way.

I'm going to have to campaign to teach Bolivians who the president is, because apparently they haven't realized I'm here yet.

Donald's Trump entire campaign is a self-troll. It's very meta.

The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.

I am a bit biased. I co-chair the campaign effort of George W. Bush.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

The first-in-the-nation Iowa caucus is crucial for every presidential campaign.

I am very proud of the campaign we ran and the supporters that came on board.

In short, I don't root against President Obama because I hate America. I root against President Obama because I hate his vision for America.

Let's face it, the subject of campaign finance is not always scintillating. But it's incredibly important.

That's what the conservative movement has become, is basically an annex of the [Donald] Trump campaign.

A corporation cannot make a campaign contribution to a candidate for federal office.

For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.

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

A media-only campaign has its advantages, but it also has its very severe disadvantages.

I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.

The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle

I didn't go on a campaign of developers asking, 'Please give me money.'

Putin is not a strategist at all. He has brilliant tactics, but he is a very bad strategist overall. And I think he is acting very opportunistically there, just to play the cards with America. He was very proud of himself when he convinced us to give up on chemical weapons so that it could be played down and prevent an invasion, and that was very helpful for Obama because Obama saved his face and didn't order airstrikes at that very moment. Putin was extremely proud. That's the kind of thing Putin does.

The basic job of any campaign is to translate grassroots energy into turnout.

Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.

There was absolutely no discussion of Russia on the Trump campaign 'til the day I left.

I worked in Maynard Jackson's first campaign, and I remember the excitement we felt when he won.

Leaving the E.U. will enable the U.K. to undertake a major campaign for import substitution.

It wouldn't do me much good to back somebody that won in Iowa if they can't carry on the campaign elsewhere.

Never say anything in a national campaign that anyone might remember.

It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.

You cannot build a grass-roots campaign unless you are connecting with people.

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

Hunter Biden's laptop is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign.

A great pair of jeans works anywhere from a campaign rally to a fancy fundraiser.

The good and the bad news is that politicians rarely do what they say they are going to do when they campaign.

If we don't get reform in campaign financing, then we can write this country off.

The Time's Up campaign is for everyone, in all capacities, contributions big and small.

In terms of the arguments, I think the pro-Leave campaign is winning them all.

Every time you work on a political campaign, half the people hate you. That's how it is.

Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.

I would say a successful campaign reflects the desire of the people who are there to support a candidate.

Why don't Republicans spend all their airtime attacking the media for lying about what Obama's amnesty does and what the Democrats are doing? It's hard to avoid concluding that Republicans aren't trying to make the right arguments. In fact, it kind of looks like they're intentionally throwing the fight on amnesty. If a Republican majority in both houses of Congress can't stop Obama from issuing illegal immigrants Social Security cards and years of back welfare payments, there is no reason to vote Republican ever again.

The America of Obama's dreams is not the one of self-reliance and entrepreneurship to which he paid phony lip service at the beginning of his speech. It is an America in which the government, rather than the private sector, creates wealth and leads ignorant, helpless people by the nose from cradle to grave, from preschool to the academy, with the caveat that if they succeed too much, they will make themselves enemies of the state and targets for punitive action. Obama's new American dreams is an American nightmare.

Barack Obama was amazing, but he wasn't perfect. We all know that. He was the closest thing to perfect America's ever had. We were basking in the glow. We forgot that there's always going to be a backlash within a movement every time. When I think about race, there were a lot of pockets of people that were still living in fear under the Obama administration, but we were in this blissful celebration mode. Now we are constantly reminded that, although there are lots of good people in the world, there are just as many horrible people.

The only thing I can stand about the Trump campaign are Ivanka's shoes.

The 2016 presidential campaign is heating up. Can you feel the indifference, the apathy?

I always imagined how cool it would be to be the face of a Gap campaign!

What this [presidency] campaign is about this bringing millions of people jobs in this country.

President Obama was not friendly to the press, but the press was very friendly to President Obama.

We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important.

I'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.

Nothing brings closure to a campaign like opening it up again.

What is a fair shot for a job applicant? An interview? Or getting the job? See, with Obama, the opportunity is not what's fair; it's the outcome. He's gonna dictate the outcome. And the premise is that the longest term unemployed person is the one who's been screwed the most. These evil employers have got something against these people that have been out of work the longest. And Obama's here to level that playing field. So if you're out of work longer than anybody else, that's all that matters. You are at the top of the hiring list.

I think Michelle Obama ought to wear her hair exactly the way she wants to wear her hair. I am not looking for Michelle Obama to cut her hair off like I have mine, very short. I'm not looking for her to do twists. I'm looking for her to wear what's comfortable for her.

The [Hillary] Clinton campaign was still operating with a White House mentality.

Like other magicians, Obama has chosen his distractions well. The insurance industry is currently his favorite distraction as scapegoats, after he has tried to demonize doctors without much success . . . . Obama even gets away with saying things like having a system to 'keep insurance companies honest' - and many people may not see the painful irony in politicians trying to keep other people honest.

We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.