When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.
Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.
When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.
I think I know a lot about campaigns.
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
In politics, all candidates and volunteers are ambassadors to voters who expect better than parroting the politics of personal destruction. Being able to find common ground at the higher ground is what separates the stateswoman from the stuntwoman.
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