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"Mounting a campaign against plutocracy makes as much sense to the typical Washington liberal as would circulating a petition against gravity. What our modernized liberal leaders offer is not confrontation but a kind of therapy for those flattened by the free-market hurricane: they counsel us to accept the inevitability of the situation."
"Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself."
"We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment."
"Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region."
"In fact, not only do I support eliminating soft money, but I support full public financing for campaigns."
"In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns."
"In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action."
"I have no more campaigns to run... I know because I won both of them."
"The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State."
"In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign."
"Here's what I'm saying, that there is now ongoing a post-mortem review of what could have gone better [during Hillary Clinton campaign] and what mistakes may have been made."
"We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community."
"Ad campaigns are necessary for competition. But good PR educates people; that's all it is."
"What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more."
"I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing."
"The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions."
"Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC campaign against apartheid, which finally changed the balance of forces inside South Africa."
"Never say anything in a national campaign that anyone might remember."
"To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men!"
"Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign."
