Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.
Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and the Russian campaign of anti-gay propaganda.
When I launched my first campaign in 1999, I knew that the arc of my public service would have many chapters.
My wife always tells people, 'He's not going to be able run to for anything because I'm not going to let him start a campaign.'
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.
Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.
One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.
I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support.
It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives.
I think there are many in the Democratic Party that want immigration to be unsolved issue at least for the time being, because it's more useful as a campaign issue than it is as a solved issue.
In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.
Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from.
I do a lot of referendums. They can't talk back. They don't have wives. They don't have friends who tell you how to run the campaign. They are supported by special interests, so there's a lot of money in them.
Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.
So many large movies come to you with a huge marketing campaign and it's like you have to see this movie this weekend, otherwise you'll be culturally bankrupt and can't converse with your friends.
How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street; it does generate buzz.
My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
People can expect to see a lot of me - I'm not too proud to stand on corners and hold my campaign signs.
Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations.
