Campaign Strategies Quotes

I've covered a lot of presidential campaigns.

The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise.

Voters have demonstrated time and again that candidates who buck the teachers' union are rewarded.

What I find shocking is that there's this thought process that Hillary Clinton is going to be president of the United States, and to even think of Donald Trump is a joke.

I'm not the inventor of negative campaigning, but I'm an ardent practitioner.

About other Democratic candidates: Never say that any of them is not qualified to be President. Never say any of them can't win. Never suggest that any of them is the tool of an group or interest ...

I've had many conversations with the Clinton family. We're friends. It's hard, very tough. I think on Election Day, everybody felt pretty good. I think the Trump campaign thought they were gonna lose.

The presidential race should not be a battle of personalities.

Super Tuesday is the day on which most states hold their primaries. Its darker partner is Dirty Tricks Thursday: the Thursday before an election when candidates release scandalous stories to garner bad publicity for their opponent: the timing means the accused will have little time to refute the allegations.

Ohio chose the president in 2000 and 2004. The independent voters, the so-called swing voters, are the ones who make the difference.

No one is confused about what a Democrat is in a presidential election. In every election other than a presidential election, our voters are confused. We've given out too many different messages.

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

I'm going to be fighting to rebuild the Democratic party no matter what. I'm going to be fighting to make sure the Democratic party is known among working people that we are their champion no matter what.

It was amazing to see Donald Trump on the night before election, who had been describing Hillary Clinton as crooked and corrupt, in a matter of a moment, was describing her as a fine and dedicated public servant, once he had won the election. So, there was a kind of barbarism all the way around, I think, in this political campaign, in which the issues really were boiled down to very small sound bites.

I have never analyzed a presidential election as much as I did the Trump-Clinton race of 2016.

Howard Dean was endorsed by former Vice President Al Gore and now he is getting advice from Al Gore. And I'm thinking, who better to give advice than the guy who couldn't even get elected with the most votes?

In a crazy world where he would get nominated, I'd like to see Obama run against Herman Cain. That would be fantastic. If Herman Cain became president, there'd be a certain sort of morbid curiosity for me.

Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

Outcome of these elections is not in doubt due to simple fact that there is only one candidate for each position…. You may be wondering why party propaganda machine attaches such importance to electoral campaign and surrounds it with such unparalleled pomp and circumstance.

If Donald Trump's candidacy has proven anything, it's that the media has no idea what Americans care about.

The political parties have no role except to stage the conventions, where you celebrate a decision that's already been made elsewhere.

Pre-poll and exit polls have now become a commercial proposition. No longer are they viewed as means for a debate or means for enriching the voters and improving the quality of political campaigns. They have become yet another way of manipulation.

I ran for ninth grade class president. Came in a close second.

Our American elections have been fought between parties which, roughly, have represented the forces advocating change and those preferring stability.