1. campaign - Noun
2. campaign - Verb
An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign.
A connected series of military operations forming a distinct stage in a war; the time during which an army keeps the field.
Political operations preceding an election; a canvass.
The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
To serve in a campaign.
Source: Webster's dictionaryProsperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign. Woodrow Wilson
A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country. Colm Tóibín
I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way. Adlai Stevenson II
Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything. Helen Thomas
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. Mario Cuomo
I argued more recently for a hypothecated wealth tax on very high earners to support the campaign against child poverty. Why shouldn't the super-rich be obliged to help the super-poor? Anthony Giddens