{"id":5850,"date":"2016-11-04T07:33:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T11:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2016-11-23T23:03:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T04:03:09","slug":"quotes-on-the-art-of-campaigning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=5850","title":{"rendered":"Quotes on the Art of Campaigning"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of celebration man can normally muster. \u2013 James Harvey Robinson<\/li>\n<li>A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in. \u2013 H.L. Mencken<\/li>\n<li>There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two. \u2013 Bertolt Brecht<\/li>\n<li>I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense. \u2013 Dwight David Eisenhower<\/li>\n<li>I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign\u2026 and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way. \u2013 Adlai Stevenson<\/li>\n<li>There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign. \u2013 Theodore White<\/li>\n<li>I believe in the battle-whether it\u2019s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle. \u2013 Richard Nixon<\/li>\n<li>I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. \u2013 Adlai Stevenson<\/li>\n<li>Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign. \u2013 Woodrow Wilson<\/li>\n<li>In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal. \u2013 Patricia Ireland<\/li>\n<li>You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. \u2013 Mario Cuomo<\/li>\n<li>A campaign is about defining who you are \u2013 your vision and your opponent\u2019s vision. \u2013 Donna Brazile<\/li>\n<li>The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. \u2013 Adlai Stevenson<\/li>\n<li>Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother. \u2013 Robert C. Byrd<\/li>\n<li>The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work. \u2013 Mark Shields<\/li>\n<li>Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? \u2013 Robert Orben<\/li>\n<li>During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he\u2019s too busy wondering what he\u2019ll do if he isn\u2019t elected. \u2013 Everett Dirksen<\/li>\n<li>The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal \u2013 that you can gather votes like box tops \u2013 is\u2026 the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. \u2013 Adlai Stevenson<\/li>\n<li>Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. \u2013 Oscar Ameringer<\/li>\n<li>Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country \u2013 and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. \u2013 Charles Krauthammer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>(ed. \u2013 This compilation of quotes first appeared in a By George Journal post of January 2010.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Chris George, providing reliable PR &amp; GR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? 613-983-0801 @<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of celebration man can normally muster. \u2013 James Harvey Robinson A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[44,30,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8797,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions\/8797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}