Andrew Breitbart Quotes

In the end, members of the [state] legislature have to have their own organizations, raise their own money and run their own campaigns if they are ... going to win.

To win a successful campaign against an opponent that has a lot more name recognition and a lot more money, I have to be edgy.

The world of campaign consulting is full of hype. It is designed to offer those desperate for an edge on their opponent the promise of a silver bullet and a consultancy willing to go to any lengths - including all those things you'd like to do but can't - in order to win.

The people who run campaigns today have more iron control over the campaign than they did 20 or 30 years ago.

If you can’t run against a political candidate, run against his campaign manager.

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

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

I think film promotion has become really important in today's time. PM Narendra Modi also felt the need to do campaigning. If he doesn't do that, then nobody will give vote to him.

Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.

Well, I would never admit to copying Karl Rove's play book, but there's no doubt that what the Bush people did in 2004 was impressive. They had neighbors talking to neighbors. They did a remarkable job increasing Republican turnout in states like Ohio and Florida.

I loved campaigning for Obama.

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

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.

There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns are very labor intensive and volunteer dependent.

In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.

The degree to which campaigns have become dominated by marketing is breaking the spirit of democracy, and we're all just so sick of it, across party lines.

Our opponents struggled manfully, desperately; but wind and tide were against them. They had campaign and other papers, good speakers, and large meetings; but we were far ahead of them in singing and electioneering emblems and mottoes which appealed to popular sympathies.

[On political campaigns:] Get an elbow, give an elbow.

In politics, you ask the rich for money, the poor for votes, and ask each of them to believe you.

During the last 20 years the advent of radio changed all the old rules of political campaigning( Now the successful advent of television, available for the first time this year in a presidential campaign, must again influence the planning of the campaign

It’s the [political] consultants’ job to take who the person is—their fixed characteristics—and leverage it.

We basically ran the Henry Bellmon campaign.

People spend money on negative campaigning because it works.

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

Anybody else who's gotten the president of the United States elected, tell me you are better than I am at it.