Campaign Trail Quotes

[Describing a presidential campaign:] A three year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.

I gave Romney some advice. I said “Mitt, just relax and be one of your selves.”

Since declaring that she would not serve in a second Obama administration, Clinton has dismissed suggestions that she will run in 2016.

The point is - that Donald Trump has been making on the campaign trail is that he's financing his own campaign. That's very important for him to say now in his mind because he wants people to know that he owes nobody anything other than the American people, or the voters who are picking, choosing his candidacy.

I voted for Barack Obama.

I'm not running for any office so whether I'm running with one man or 18 men is nobody's business.

On the campaign trail, I have the opportunity to meet people from all walks of life - from residents at a battered women's shelter to mentally handicap children to retirees - and learn about their lives and struggles.

Is it me or is Bush going everywhere Kerry goes? So far in the past week, President Bush has followed John Kerry to Davenport, Iowa; New Mexico; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; and he follows him to Portland, Oregon. The only place he never followed John Kerry was Vietnam.

Newt Gingrich would cream Barack Obama in a debate.

I think I have a big advantage. But it's certainly a three-person race. And you have a couple of other people that are very talented there too. So we have a five-man race. And I think that it's going to be not easy. I have a big advantage. But a long way from being won.

Well, let me just say - I mean, I'm not a person who's going to vote for any of the potential Republican nominees for the presidency of the United States.

Presidential campaign and White House are two aggressively separate things. They still think I'm the weird kid in the corner, so I don't have much power. But I'll definitely do something to help.

Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.

The latest polls show that Arnold Schwarzenegger is trailing Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante in the polls. That's insane. I mean, think about it, this guy Cruz Bustamante has never even been in a movie.

Where did the inspiring Obama of the campaign go, that Facebook pied piper who friended the whole world with this update: 'Change you can believe in.' What happened to him?

A campaign gives you focus. You wake up to a different hotel alarm clock every day, but you know your mission.

Presidents are not elected in these crowded halls, with cheering thousands. They are elected by the fireside in November.

Actually, after many years on the campaign trail, there is not a particular food that I've come across that I would avoid.

Politicians make a lot of promises when they are campaigning, and they come to towns, and people get enthusiastic about them coming to their communities. And then they don't fulfill the promises.

I would never run for president.

The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility.

I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.

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

I don't know if the presidential candidates are running for the White House or Animal House.

I don't think people realize how life-altering running for president is.