Campaign Negativity Quotes

People do not like negative campaigns.

In a national campaign you are driven to negativism.

Negative campaigning is wrong.

People lose their sense of humor in [presidential] campaigns.

The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today.

The fact is that [Hillary Clinton] has been the person who started this type of conversation in the campaign. She should be ashamed of herself.

In something as important as an election, a little name-calling sometimes breaks out.

Negative politics in a primary campaign produces damaged goods but you've got to do what you've got to do.

I hate negative ads in general.

Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.

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

For an office-seeker [candidate], sticks and stones are greatly to be preferred to an adhesive adjective.

Every presidential election I've ever been involved with has been characterized as the dirtiest campaign in history.