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I think I know a lot about campaigns.

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

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.

A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.

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

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

When a campaign doesn't go my way, I always take a step back, look at the facts, and try to figure out what we could learn from that experience.

I believe that the best way to campaign is one-on-one with people.

A lot of times when people are on campaigns, it can be like a movie set.

Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.