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We're going to be very deliberate about this. We're not in the game of running a smear campaign against individuals, but we do believe accountability is a central issue.

We're pleased we were able to prevent a full-blown, costly, distracting initiative campaign this fall.

We're getting close. We hope to wind up the campaign before the groundbreaking in May.

We know we've run a good campaign. We've run the campaign we wanted to run and got our message out.

We know how to deal with these things in a positive way. We're opening an education campaign on the life and legacy of the Prophet Muhammad.

We have said throughout the campaign that New Zealanders would pay for National's tax cuts through higher mortgage and interest rates and today's statement from the bank bears that out,

What the sense seems to be is that somehow Gov. Bush's campaign should be protected from Gov. Bush's lawyers, if they didn't ask for a recount, and therefore there should be recount anyway, even if they didn't ask for it.

We want people to look twice to save a life. That's our campaign slogan.

We want George Bush to put up or shut up, ... Stand up to the plate and say, 'This is wrong. An attack on valorous service of a fellow American is wrong.' And he's behind it, and his campaign is behind it.

The referendum will boil down to a fundamental debate on the future of this great state. The referendum campaign will be a choice between those who support the status quo versus those who believe in greater economic prosperity.

We want the community to be enthusiastic about the campaign and to own the idea.

We want the 2006 Urban Hot Spots campaign to focus on Toronto because it's Canada's largest city, and the problems surrounding trail access here are representative of the challenges faced in urban areas across the country.

The only way she can establish a beach hold of credibility is to try and play into what's likely to be a kind of anti-incumbent, anti-politician campaign season.

We hear nothing at all about how successful the campaign has been elsewhere.

We've spent all summer refining our agenda. Now we want to reinforce and re-emphasize the message. The campaign is still based on Bob O'Connor's ability and experience to lead Pittsburgh.

The fact that Katherine Harris thinks the best way to help her campaign is to change the subject from her ties to a bribery scandal to how her candidacy is in disarray speaks volumes.

The fact he is doing this at the very time the Republican convention is going on tells me that his political situation is becoming very difficult, ... The Daschle campaign is very desperate right now.

The problem with the big issues, Social Security reform, campaign finance reform, fundamental tax reform, is that they are so politically dangerous that I think both sides want to avoid them.

We're here in Harlem. Mike Bloomberg's campaign posters could make it here. Where's Mike?

We're happy that the margin is just outside the margin of error and we expect this to be a spirited campaign over the next 27 days.

This race is more than uphill. At this point, for a team to come in and try to right the ship is going to be very tough. It's going to be difficult as long as the candidate insists on being the candidate, the campaign manager and the strategist.

There are two ways of looking at campaign finance,

There are things that I thought would be a difference between us and all of a sudden I see my opponent has jumped over to the same place I am. This campaign is about ideas and vision and the experience to carry that out.

when he joined the campaign two years ago to oust and succeed Governor Gray Davis. ''He used to be a celebrity, then he became celebrity/politician Schwarzenegger. And now, he's more politician.

When you put money directly to a problem, it makes a good headline. It makes a good campaign slogan. You get to claim that you've engaged in these activities within an election cycle. But certain investments take longer than an election cycle.

When I campaign with seniors, it's always, 'Are you a Democrat or Republican?' But when I campaign on college campuses, they ask me where I stand on specific issues. I think Millennials are much less interested in conventional labels. One thing that's universal among Millennials is a distinct frustration with Washington, D.C.

When I asked you to step up and do something that was hard, you did it, ... I hope you feel that I've been there for you and most importantly, not just during campaign season.

The only people who would have had authorized access to that tape were the most senior members of our campaign, and so it appears that whoever sent that tape to the Gore campaign obtained it in some sort of unethical way.

The Prime Minister has directed that we should make efforts to have a public awareness campaign on conservation.

The primaries are a great chance to discuss politics in depth, to get ready for an electoral campaign that will be very difficult, and one in which money and media won't be on our side,

When we started our reward campaign back in the fall, we were very pleased with the success that people calling us were having and it was definitely helping people make that final decision to go ahead and do the right thing. Many had been contemplating calling us for a long time. We just decided that if some is good, more is better. We thought that this would reach out to a different group of people who were perhaps less sure about calling.

We've never had an integrated marketing campaign until this one.

The planned polio vaccination campaign is an emergency protective measure aiming at rapidly boosting children's immunity against polio.

The place for religion is in church, synagogue and in the home and in one's heart, ... Certainly, we think it's contradictory to the American tradition to put it on the campaign trail, to say, 'Vote for me because I'm a believer.'

Like every campaign, we'll be adjusting our campaign schedule on an as-appropriate basis. We're certainly not suspending all of our activities, but we will, of course, be sensitive to tone, to taste, to the national mood, and making scheduling decisions accordingly.

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

l can give them the assurance as I work with them that this campaign will be sensitive to their issues and their concerns, ... They're a major piece of this campaign. More important than what I can do, they know that Al Gore represents working men and women.

La-Z-Boy hasn't done much with football since that one campaign and I thought that was a mistake. They haven't made that connection with every Super Bowl and I think that is a mistake.

Many measures of child and adolescent well-being have improved over the past decade but few as dramatically as teen pregnancy, ... On the occasion of the National Campaign's 10th anniversary, we will celebrate the power of prevention, applaud the tremendous progress the nation has made on an issue many once considered intractable, thank all those who have helped the National Campaign along the way, and underscore the fact that the problem of teen pregnancy is far from solved.

Many times in the campaign I said a few things like that without thinking through the implications of what I was saying.

Senator Kerry's comments used for campaign fund-raising purposes are simply over the top, extremely inappropriate and factually incorrect.

So far, this campaign has been very one-sided; the only thing the people have heard about the governor's reform agenda is what they heard from union bosses. Now, they will hear from the governor and learn why he believes these reforms are critical.

So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.

Soldiers in Iraq have told me they don't want to be there. They want to come home. They have told us to step up our campaign of resistance to this government's war policies.

She wants to build a database of donors she could use in a presidential run, although I'm sure her campaign will deny that.

She was up against it to begin with and she still has an extremely tough row to hoe. It certainly helps, but in and of itself it is not a savior of a campaign when there are significant problems. She's lost some of the best consultants in the country and money can't replace that.

She was a phenomenal mother. And she affected many others, too. So many people have come up to me over the years, even on the campaign trail, to say how much of a difference her books made for them.

She's trying to use it as a campaign issue. I'm trying to use it, as mayor of the city, to try to get balance,

She should recognize that, and fulfill her pledge of gender parity. I think that is the campaign promise that will most shape her term in office.

Silly, negative distortions from a desperate campaign are sad and irrelevant.

She can't hide and expect this to go away. It looks like her campaign is circling the wagons.

She can be reimbursed for the cost of the election if she is not recalled. She can be reimbursed up to 10 cents per voter for authorized expenses, which include money spent on challenging the sufficiency of recall petition and things like campaign literature, ads and campaign headquarters.

Since the court will not take swift action to order union officials to inform union members of their rights, this informational campaign will help pick up the slack. Union officials have been fighting tooth and nail to keep teachers in the dark. They naturally fear a revolt from teachers opposing the union hierarchy's extraordinary $60 million campaign this fall.

Since the clusters are free of the typical demographic and geographic inputs, they offer advertisers the chance to utilize media consumption insights in developing a marketing campaign for targeted markets as diverse as specific consumer groups, product categories, and even specific retail channels.

Since Gov. Romney is not seeking re-election, there is no campaign to run, and so he has ended his contractual relationship with Mike Murphy. Mike has been a trusted friend and adviser, and he always will be.

She pledged that her government would work with UNHCR and other partners to reintegrate them into their communities, to identify employment opportunities, and to help them obtain those basic services that will enable them to resume a normal life. Her filmed message will be part of a UNHCR mass information campaign for some 190,000 Liberian refugees who are still scattered across West Africa.

She is cashing checks for Dan's campaign and voting on zoning applications from the donors. I don't want to throw mud, but this issue smells a bit.

Mr. Harper's claims that a campaign will turn to sharply negative ads in lieu of a positive message to Canadians has proven prophetic: but it turns out he was talking about his own party.

Mr. Harper begins his campaign with an unequivocal statement that, if elected prime minister, he would act swiftly to roll back charter rights.

Mr. President, I would suggest this is your campaign, ... Much of this money that was raised was for your campaign and for your re-election. This is your White House. This is your Department of Justice, and these are your tapes. And you have a responsibility.

Mr. President, have some respect for the men and women risking their lives to follow your orders, ... I ask you to have the decency to suspend your relentless foraging for campaign cash while our troops are in harm's way.

Mr. Condit has made pledges and promises for a long time -- before the campaign and during the campaign -- that he would do anything he could to help the investigators. We just ask that he keep his word and keep his pledge that he will cooperate completely and talk to our investigators and help them find our daughter.

Mr. Brewer has clearly calculated the timing of the dissemination of his campaign literature to deprive me of the opportunity to make a measured and meaningful response to the voters.

McCain wants to make the GOP move in the direction of his issues, particularly campaign finance reform. There are two issues he'll squabble with Republican leadership on. First is his bitterness toward Bush for the attack ads from South Carolina on. Second, he can make the issue that he drew new voters into the party, and that the party will have to incorporate his platform if it wants to keep those voters.

My kids are more important to me than my campaign. I'm not going to make it a campaign issue or a campaign promise.

one of our campaign platforms was Boiler pride as well as student outreach.

One is a brand that resonates with the online consumer ... and two, a very successful techno-marketing campaign that we have exploited for the last six months.

Of course, it is still eight months to election day, but the campaign is starting to fall into its own natural rhythm: falsely macho Kerry comment, falsely indignant Bush response.

Of course any time you do a good job you have the enhanced capacity to campaign effectively,

No one knows that, including David, apart from two people in his campaign team,

My dream is that someone would buy the card and use it some kind of anti-smoking campaign for youngsters. There's potential there.

More often, it's people who already have some knowledge of the campaign and the candidate generally seeking out more information beyond what they're getting - whether it's on television, whether it's on radio, whether it's in print.

More voices are being heard questioning the tactics, the military operations that are going on, the bombing, and also behind that, wondering whether the issue is far more complicated than this military campaign makes it appear.

No other past presidential candidate, with the exception of McCain, has done what Kerry has done in terms of converting his presidential campaign into a grass-roots political and legislative operation. He's dedicated to electing Democrats.

Obama was elected by the people, and I was glad that barrier was broken down. I did, along with my wife, campaign for him in Ohio because that was a key state. If I had to say does he rate an 'A' or does he rate a 'D,' it would be very difficult. I give him a 'C.'

Next we are going to start our meteor search campaign in earnest. We have to finish up our nighttime observation campaigns relatively soon. That's because we're at the peak of our power availability now on Spirit over the coming months, as the Sun starts to get lower and Mars gets farther from the Sun.

negative, carping and begrudging campaign against Sinn Fein.

Naturally we are concerned about the suggestion we lost more kids than we thought. We are going to work hard at our outreach and we want to step up our campaign even more this year.

NATO's air campaign in succeeding in weakening (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic 's repressive capability, and we are exacting a heavy price for his ethnic cleansing activity, ... NATO's resolution remains unshakable.

NATO's air campaign ... has continued and will continue again next week, and we will continue for as many weeks after that as we need to complete the task,

Obviously the message, or the brand, or what you see it won't be consistent. But it isn't a big issue. If it was a big issue Wayne would be asked to do what everybody else is doing. He and his people know what works in that district and the P.E.I. campaign and the national campaign trust his judgement on these things.

No campaign materials are allowed inside the polling place. Either on the person or signs.

Rich Tarrant's campaign is focused on Vermonters' interests alone.

Phil better take notice. If he wants to try to replicate the Roberti campaign of 1994, he's up against a team that knows how to fight back. I've been accused of a lot of things, but not being willing to fight back isn't one of them.

Phil is running a Walter Mondale campaign -- nail down the special-interest groups early, get all the big-name officeholders to endorse you and expect it will roll you into office. It didn't work for Mondale -- and he lost 49 states.

My secret campaign weapon is Rufus, whose 17 pounds of furry affection provides a playmate for the children of voters, giving mom and dad a few minutes to talk about their vision for the future.

Nickelodeon and Kellogg engage in business practices that literally sicken our children. It's a multimedia brainwashing and re-education campaign -- and a disease-promoting one at that.

Nobody knows who they are or where they are or if they're going to vote. Ideally, you'd have to run a multi-city campaign in Baton Rouge, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta.

Nobody is talking about putting in ground troops into a combat situation. Everybody agrees that the air campaign has to run its course until such time as those Serb forces are degraded, diminished, demoralized and on their way out.

Only when we regain some social justice, more social welfare, more real wage increases, only then can the economy recover. At least you know where you stand with us. We certainly won't succumb to the ridiculous temptation to campaign as the Party of the New Center.

On major economic policies, the campaign has made clear that both parties share the same basic concepts of reform and small government.

One of the great things about this country is that people are able to express their opinions on these issues. I think that the people protesting are going to find that there are a lot of issues in this campaign that they will agree with the senator and support the senator on. Everyone is going to agree that the safe return of U.S. troops is the top concern and number one priority.

I was impressed with the campaign for Bombay Sapphire; it's really original. Someone said, 'I know the creator,' and I met with Fritz in New York and really hit it off.

I was running a campaign as late as Wednesday. When I returned (to work) Wednesday, I was told I had to choose between City Council or the firm because of the conflicts of me being on City Council.

I wish we could go back to the times when you could pick up the phone, call all your friends and ask them to vote for you and you'd be halfway home. But it's very difficult a run a credible campaign with phone calls and yard signs. There are just so many different groups and segments of the community you have to circulate through. You've got to cover your bases.

If we don't clean up our corrupt system of financing political campaigns, the people's agenda won't get done, ... Our loophole-ridden campaign finance system puts the special interests at the table, while locking moms, dads and kids out of the room.

If they go so far as to make some sort of express deal, then all of a sudden it can become criminal. There's a lot of nodding and winking and that's why I say the entire campaign finance system we have is in some way a sort of organized, legalized bribery.

If they fight the campaign on the war on terror, that is the one issue where they beat Democrats consistently.

If they try to put through a bailout, there's no amount of campaign contributions that's going to protect them from what the voters are going to do to them in the next election.

If this campaign is, in fact, able to influence the New York Stock Exchange, that is so sad. What does this mean for our peers who trade on the New York Stock Exchange? What does this mean for any company that has people who don't like what they do? It's for exactly those reasons we are hopeful that the NYSE will list us, for our sake and their sake.