Quotes About Politics

And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.

Election results and winning an election is not all about winning the next election or planning to win the next election.

If you think winning means a porous border with 400,000 people apprehended illegally every year, then your definition of winning is different than mine.

You don't realise it, but we're in a race between technology and politics, and technologists are winning. They're way ahead.

We need a new leader in Congress who will represent the issues that Donald Trump ran on because they were the winning issues.

The Democratic Party has been a party of reaction - a party of opposition, complaining about Trump and the Republicans, rather than offering a lot of our own ideas and our own vision. And my view is that if Democrats want to start winning again, we have to start leading again.

The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.

Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.

If Quebeckers want Jean Charest, well, they can choose him. It's never a winning formula to divide Quebeckers.

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved.

Nobody ever wins the first time they run for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win their first bid for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win without taking lobbyists' money. No one's ever supposed to defeat an incumbent. No one's ever supposed to run a grassroots campaign without running any ads on television. We did all of those things.

If Trump wins, I think the whole thing is going to blow up, and we're going to start over, and that's always a good thing to do.

If we live in a perpetual state of outrage, Trump wins. Because when we become depleted and exhausted and sapped of our energy, we're not as resourceful, creative, or effective.

I'm going to be voting for Donald Trump. I'm going to do everything I can to make sure he wins.

As we've always said, in politics the person with the biggest number wins.

We've got to take confrontation out of the centre of politics. With fighting, no one wins; with dialogue, everyone wins.

I would vote for Bush if for no other reason than to be at the airport waving off all the people who say they are going to London if he wins again. Someone has got to stay behind.

Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.

You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.

The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough.

It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.

We should just get somebody from the left and the right and they should all throw bumper stickers at each other and the first one to cover the other one wins.