Campaigning Quotes

Al Gore has been campaigning as his own man, speaking to the American people from his own heart and that's the way it should be. The president has a number of important activities to do for Democrats. - Doug Hattaway

After peacefully campaigning for three years to ensure children get to see their fathers, we condemn any individual who planned this appalling outrage which is anathema to our campaign. - Matt O'Connor

Advocacy is not only a direct appeal to someone to vote in favor or against, but also includes campaigning for the referendum by describing it in positive terms ... or by describing dire consequences if the referendum does not pass. - Ari Rosenthal

A similar bill if Massachusetts legislators passed it. But he said current high energy prices reflect a long-term problem requiring a long-term solution, and a gas tax holiday ''is not something that I'm going to be campaigning for. - Mitt Romney

[The UBE] changes the campaigning rules every year. They are revised, any possible problems from the year before are ironed out, and any problems that we can foresee for the coming year are also changed. Campaigning is free and fair for University students. The students of the University hold a lot of influence, and the student elections are a great example of that influence. - Chris Jones

[Some interest groups and Senate Democrats] would like nothing more than for you to take a litmus test... I agree that this committee needs answers but only to proper questions. You are not campaigning for elective office. The question that needs to be answered is how you view the role of unelected judges in a representative democracy. - Orrin Hatch

[Social Democrats, however, have not excluded joining a] grand coalition ... I am campaigning for a government of Christian Democrats and Free Democrats. - Angela Merkel

[Should Gore win November's election,] I have no idea how he is going to argue that he has the public behind him on the foreign policy he wants to enact... I think George Bush is going to have a bigger problem in that he is an internationalist, but is campaigning as an isolationist. - James Lindsay

[Kennedy] did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency. - Hugh Sidey

(Mr. Johnson), like many officials in his position, have been scratching their heads as these small (wireless Internet) interests are campaigning to install wireless networks in cities throughout Silicon Valley. But we want what happens in Menlo Park to be consistent with another city. - Seth Fearey