Quotes About Politics

Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.

In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.

During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.

There is no winner or loser - just one family, the U.M.P. The time for internal squabbles is behind us.

Let's not make out as though I will be the winner. I won't be. Putin will run and he will win.

One thing without any question that is true today and that is that the winner of the 28-minute commercial is President Barack Obama.

Trump-Pence is a winner for the GOP.

I am the elected president of Liberia, not Ellen Sirleaf. They stole my victory, and I am here to say loud and clear that I am the winner of the elections.

I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner.

I never thought America would be stupid enough to put this idiot in the White House. Up until a half hour before they declared Trump the winner, I still thought that it wouldn't happen. I never thought that we, as a nation, had fallen so much that we would be foolish enough to do that.

In boxing and politics, you cannot predict results. You should be ready to go 12 rounds. But if you win in the first round, you should be ready to be the winner quickly.

Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show business for ugly people. It's the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.

Any time you have a competitive situation like politics is, there are winners, and there are people who don't win, and their supporters can sometimes be very emotional.

This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.

We need to improve our horrible position within the petroleum game by eliminating the EPA and other crippling bureaucracies that have turned the U.S. from the game's biggest winners into its worst losers.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

Tony Blair was a good politician but not a good Prime Minister, and that's what we don't want to be. We don't want to be just people who are good at winning elections: we want to be good at governing. I think we benefit from having seen the mistakes that we think Tony Blair made in 1997.

The candidate who promises the most has the best chance of winning.

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

When Congress and the general public disagree simply along party lines, the Russians are winning.

When you are in election mode, you are focused only on winning.