Top 38 Politics Is A Game Quotes
#4. Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.
Kit Harington
#5. Experience has taught that politics is a game played by conmen and hypocrites.
Michela Wrong
#6. Politicians should be dedicated to the welfare of the people, but sometimes politics becomes like a game of chess, in which the sole aim is to stay on board as long as possible.
Nirmala Srivastava
#7. There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.
George Papandreou
#8. International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the age of blood feuds. World leaders are expected to lead in turning threats into opportunities.
Hassan Rouhani
#9. It is a game, the whole ball of wax is a game - your life, my life, politics, economy, hunger ...
Mandy Patinkin
#10. Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Eugene McCarthy
#11. Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.
Eric Liu
#12. I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being shown as a silly ass.
David Low
#13. Liberia is not at the center of a massive geopolitical game. Afghanistan is and has always been. The history is dramatic, the politics are dramatic, the landscape is incredibly dramatic.
Tim Hetherington
#14. Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in the country who are hurting.
Bernie Sanders
#15. It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.
Winston Churchill
#16. There. Politics is a bartering game.
J.D. Robb
#17. There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.
Johann Lamont
#18. Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.
Harry S. Truman
#19. The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.
Steven Weber
#20. One aspect of politics too little acknowledged is that besides being jolly serious and all that, it is also a hugely enjoyable game for boys.
Andrew Marr
#21. We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.
Kjell Magne Bondevik
#23. Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.
Edi Rama
#24. If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#25. Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
Tom Peters
#26. Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.
Honeysuckle Weeks
#27. I've always championed women in politics. We just get stuck in; politics isn't a game. The decisions we make affect people's lives, and that is something we must all keep to the forefront of our minds.
Theresa May
#28. The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
John Major
#29. Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.
Sarah Palin
#30. Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.
Ken Livingstone
#31. In a world where global politics is no longer a zero-sum game, it is - or should be - counterintuitive to pursue one's interests without considering the interests of others.
Hassan Rouhani
#32. Politics is a tough game. But would I change places with a trauma nurse in an emergency ward on a busy Saturday night? No way. There are lots of jobs in the world that are tougher than politics. And politicians and people who've done it need to remember that.
Michael Ignatieff
#33. Politics these days is a disgusting game of mud-slinging, filled with selfish people with selfish aims. I'm very glad I've retired away from the hustle and bustle of Whitehall.
Munir Butt
#34. I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in the study of politics, math has come into the picture. We can no longer pretend that we just speculate about politics; we need to look at this in a rigorous way.
Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
#35. There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.
Kathleen Wynne
#36. The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.
Jean Chretien
#37. Trouble is, we call politics a game, but it isn't one. There is no referee, and the teams make up the rules as they go along. You can't cry foul or offside in politics. Almost anything goes.
Michael Ignatieff
#38. The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.
Orhan Pamuk
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