10 Campaign Slogans for Your Favorite Fictional Characters

Even if you don’t happen to live in the great state of Iowa, you might have noticed the herds of presidential candidates roaming the country. The 2016 presidential campaign has been under way for quite some time, and we’ve still got a year left. Sure, we’ll lose some more contenders, but that’s still many eons months of campaign slogans heard on repeat. Prosperity. Peace. Freedom. Hope. All of them revolve around the same themes. It gets repetitive.
Maybe there are better slogans out there, if you think outside the box. And who better to inspire than our favorite fictional heroes, antiheroes, and sidekicks-turned-protagonists? With that in mind, here are a few sample presidential slogans from our favorite characters.
“Make This Country Mine Again” –Daenarys Targaryen (A Song of Ice and Fire series, by George R.R. Martin)
She’s burnished her foreign policy credentials—to varying degrees of success—but all Khaleesi wants is the unchallenged rule of the homeland she has never visited. She’s distilled that yearning into something that will fit on truck stop hats.
“The Impossible Is Now The Only Logical Possibility”–Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle)
It’s not exactly concise, but Sherlock’s campaign credo is just the tiniest bit inspiring. And maybe it distracts voters long enough to bury his cocaine habit in the news.
“A Scotsman for Every Woman!”–Claire Randall Fraser (Outlander series, by Diana Gabaldon)
You get a hunky husband! And you get a hunky husband! Hunky husbands for all! Boom times are here again!
“Let’s Unstick Our Time” –Billy Pilgrim (Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut)
Listen: all the things he’s promised will happen, more or less.
“To Be, That Is the Solution”–Hamlet  (Hamlet, by William Shakespeare)
His opponents may say he was wishy-washy on this issue in the past, but Hamlet is very, definitely, totally into being now. That and checking the drapery more frequently.
“I Have a Daughter”–Mrs. Bennet (Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
She has several, in fact. Something for every taste. A vote for her is a vote for amiable, marriageable young women everywhere. Everybody behave naturally.
“Why” –Arthur Dent (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, by Douglas Adams)
He doesn’t have all the answers. In fact, Arthur doesn’t have any of the answers. But he does have a towel, and he’ll gladly sit down for a cuppa with you.
“Dreaming of a Better Tomorrow” — Morpheus (Sandman series, by Neil Gaiman)
Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream. Please make it one without The Corinthian.
“Yes, I Can” — Amy Dunne (Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn)
The last time we saw this kind of brutal, ruthless tactical efficiency, we called it The Prince. She’s a leader to be lovingly feared and fearlessly loved.
“Ook” — The Librarian (Discworld series, by Terry Pratchett)
Ook.