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Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

There is probably no such thing as a level playing field in political campaigns.

I don't often get involved with campaigns at all.

I think the best campaigns are campaigns of ideas and substance.

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

I think I know a lot about campaigns.

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound.

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.