We should remember the campaign advertising will be only a smaller portion of the President's total exposure.

When I launched my first campaign in 1999, I knew that the arc of my public service would have many chapters.

I realise that in an electoral campaign, you don't want to antagonise large groups which are highly motivated.

Sometimes, anonymous sources, when merely stating opinions or running a smear campaign, are certainly cowards.

Truly, if you can't cover a five-car pile-up on Route 128, you should not be covering a presidential campaign.

You want to be somewhat cautious inasmuch as you can't use the state email for political or campaign business.

In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

I partnered with AstraZeneca to help launch the 'Mom Nose Best' campaign, where I provide tips for flu season.

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

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.

The Obama campaign decimated the newly regenerated anti-war movement in 2008. And he definitely isn't anti-war.

Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.

To a certain extent, people's behavior in a campaign is generally a reflection of how they would act in office.

I really had no aspirations for becoming a DJ, and now I find myself having to campaign to be in the DJ Top 100.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

Quite frankly, I'm running a campaign on the economy and jobs and economic opportunities for the American people.

My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.

On the campaign trail, candidate Trump occasionally raised the idea of creating 'safe zones' for Syrian civilians.

Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.

We have big ideas. I just think that's part of how you campaign. You talk to the American people about big things.

I was on the campaign trail for 18 months. I never got a question about the District of Columbia in South Carolina.

Candidates, of course, often claim that they want to run 'a purely positive campaign,' but this rarely materializes.

The hardest thing to do in politics is campaign as someone you aren't. People can spot an imposter from a mile away.

I have no doubt that the lies Trump told on the campaign trail will come crashing back at him in karmic retribution.

Back during the campaign, there were a lot of questions: Is Trump really a conservative? A lot of questions about it.

The Obama campaign has adeptly used YouTube and social networks as a relatively thrifty way to do targeted messaging.

Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.

The best way to appreciate our political process is to volunteer for a campaign and support a candidate you believe in.

I am a political junkie. During a presidential campaign, I will often buy a couple of newspapers a day just to keep up.

There was a time when I was enamored of the Clintons. I knocked on doors, phone-banked and rallied during his campaign.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.

Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.

The weakness that our campaign and that I had is we weren't effective in taking my message primarily to minority voters.

The people who are backing the Remain campaign are people who have done very well, thank you, out of the European Union.

Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

It might not be wise for a sometime political journalist to admit this, but the 2016 campaign doesn't seem like fun to me.

When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.

My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.

No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.

I've learned the dangerous lesson of the web: You succeed by giving up control, and that's inverse of the normal campaign.

When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.

Bringing accountability to Washington has been an important part of my time in office and an important part of my campaign.

You can learn a lot about Pat Buchanan by talking to his campaign staff, particularly the ones who have quit or been fired.

As an opinion manager, a campaign consultant, fixing personality negatives is a lot easier than fixing character negatives.

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