Jenna Bush Quotes

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

Today, campaigning isn't an 'interruption' but a permanent condition. Indeed, if you are a successful campaigner, it's expected you'll be a successful president.

I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.

I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.

When you're putting together a campaign for president, like I've been, that entails a lot of time. It's not like I've been at the beach sipping a pina colada.

The hardest thing about a presidential election is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Political campaigns are only a slightly more polite form of ground battle.

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

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

A political campaign is a movement. It's built around a single candidate. It will evaporate when he or she gets elected.

It is increasingly difficult to run a campaign of substance in an atmosphere which increasingly focuses on personality.

We took the advertising account for Johnson’s campaign because our staff is deadly afraid of Goldwater

Money does not always win elections. Usually it does however.

Campaigns are about adjustments.

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

I think I had a superb campaign team. And I know it's always expected that if you lose, people point to the campaign team and say, 'Gee, they didn't do their job well.' If you win, they're all brilliant. And the team, in my view, did a superb job.

I would love to be a mentor to many people who want to go into the political arena, teach them the art of winning elections.

In presidential campaigns, experience as a candidate is an invaluable asset.

The first thing I learned is that campaigns are about money. I had this romantic idea that campaigns were about law and debates and so forth, which is just not true. It's about money.

Campaigning ain't tough.

I learned more in 11 months in running for president than I did in 12 years of school.

The simplest answer is the truth: I am a campaign professional.

You cannot win an election without a fight.

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

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.