Top 684 Smear Campaigns Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

As a veteran of many campaigns, I know how important it is not let up in the last few days.

Campaigns are these moments of suspended animation where people usually learn how to be friends afterward.

I'd like to see more beauty campaigns for girls who are mixed Latina and black.

I resent the idea that Israel is part of the political agenda in United States' campaigns, really.

My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.

The worst terrorist crimes going on right now are the drone campaigns.

Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

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

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money.

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

Ultimately, presidential campaigns are - or at least should be - about the candidates, not their spouses or surrogates.

Trump delights in building his campaigns around white Americans' racial anxieties.

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

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

Social media marketers have already shown unusual savvy in executing campaigns in Brazil.

Shockingly enough, what people say during campaigns is meant to increase the odds they get elected.

I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.

Britney Spears is definitely my favorite past Candie's girl; her campaigns were gorgeous.

Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.

I was one of the first people to put [Ambassador] Joe Wilson on TV and, of course, exposing that entire attempt to smear him by exposing his wife [CIA operations officer Valerie Plame Wilson]. And we sat down to do a long interview by satellite and we publicized it for several days.

Through my career at ExxonMobil, I've been actively involved in United Way campaigns.

Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

Remember, at the end of the day [election] campaigns are always about the candidates.

I love marketing a lot, and I'm very creative when it comes to developing ideas for shows or publicity campaigns.

I don't think politicians should be allowed to take money for their campaigns from outside interests.

I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.

If an uncompromising stand is to be smeared as 'extremism,' then that smear is directed at any devotion to values, any loyalty to principles, any profound conviction, any consistency, any steadfastness, any passion, any dedication to an unbreached, inviolate truth -- any man of integrity.

I think the best term limit is to have public financing of campaigns and independent redistricting.

What haven't I been called? Every antigay, misogynist, anti-Semitic, anti-liberal smear you can think of. I don't think I can transform those smears; I can't even repeat them! But I proudly embrace the identities beneath them.

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

I love presidential campaigns. It is a time when people are feeling what is going on in the heart of our country.

When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.

I am incredibly proud of the many journalists I have worked with throughout my career and the great campaigns that we have fought and won.

What I'm not - I can't control other people's campaigns. If they decide that's what they want to do with their time and money, they certainly have a right to do it.

I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.

The decision in McCutcheon v. FEC is a devastating blow in efforts to rein in out-of-control costs of campaigns.

Supporting and publicising the campaigns of smaller unions pressures bosses to accept workers' demands.

I've been involved in five presidential campaigns, once as national campaign manager for Walter Mondale.

Get stuffed, don't you have more publicity stunts to pull?" Bones shot back. "How about chatting with another writer who can smear your name into greater popularity?" "What, did Anne Rice not return your calls, mate?" Vlad asked scathingly. "Jealousy is such an ugly trait.

It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us.

In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.

From a moral point of view, it is wrong... to smear or stereotype minority communities, to pretend or give credence to the idea that the actions of a minority within a community are somehow representative or the fault of the majority of members of that community. That is the very definition of bigotry.

As a British person, I am unable to give strategic advice to political campaigns in the U.S.

I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.

In the age of global warming hysteria and the $93 trillion 'Green' New Deal, leftist advocates for more government intervention in the economy under the guise of environmentalism have engaged in a new smear: If you don't buy into climate change hysteria, you're a 'denier' who doesn't care about the environment.

I've been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perry.

I think all of the parties still have some way to go to better utilise IT in campaigns.

I started acting as a kid and doing advertising campaigns. I was probably 8 years old, and I really liked the attention.

I definitely learned about the inner workings of campaigns enough to know that I'm glad that I'm not in politics.

For years, many public health campaigns that aimed at changing habits have been failures.

There were times (during my early campaigns) when I thought, "You know what I could really use? A wife."

During the Gezi protests and PKK terror campaigns, the unity and solidarity of the Turkish nation were attacked.

Ad campaigns are necessary for competition. But good PR educates people; that's all it is.

Campaigns are weird animals and innately bring out bizarre road stories.

I love being part of campaigns and events that are working with kids and just sharing my personal experiences.

You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns.

If other members of the Hindi film fraternity are doing aggressive promotional campaigns, then I can do the same.