Negative Ads Quotes

Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.

Hillary Clinton spent hundreds of millions of dollars on negative ads on me, many of which are absolutely untrue. They're untrue. And they're misrepresentations.

I've never, in my whole 30 years in office, run a negative ad.

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

Hillary Clinton is spending hundreds of millions of dollars. I mean, tremendous vast amounts of money in advertising against me.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule

Unfortunately, every American citizen takes the same position... that we don’t like negative advertisements. But they work! And, as you see, many a candidate has prevailed by tearing down the reputation of an opponent in a more advantageous position.

[Commenting on negative campaigning:] On the eve of the first Tuesday in November, once again we are faced with the ugly paradox of 30-second-spot democracy: to prove they are worthy of governing us in all that we hold dear, America's politicians must behave in a way that proves they aren't.

Even though voters overwhelmingly dislike negative ads, they do influence voters' opinions about a candidate.

Negative campaigning is wrong.

One of the most overused phrases in political commentary is that someone is running a 'negative' campaign filled with 'attack' ads.

There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.

Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads.

If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.

I hate all adverts for alcohol. They're evil. All of them.

I liked writing the negative ads more than - because it's more minor chords.

… the most famous ad produced in the history of political television

If you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.

I was told that people did not like negative ads. So I didn't run any. I lost.

It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads.

It's a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history.

We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.

I have never run a negative political ad in my life.

I think that the best approach would be if the American people ever insist that we cut down on the massive amounts of money that moves into the campaigns from special interest groups, and if we resist publicly by saying "No more negative advertisements that destroy the reputations of one's opponents." In the meantime, just don't pay any attention to negative ads, if you can avoid them, and try to focus on the issues.

I hate negative ads in general.