Politics Is Not A Game Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Winston Churchill

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. I've been around politics a long time. I've seen it at its best and its worst, been at so many events, listened to private conversations versus public speaking, understood the game of it, and in many ways the theatrics.

Kevin Spacey

#8. The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

Joni Mitchell

#9. In the elaborate con that is American electoral politics, the Republican voter has long been the easiest mark in the game, the biggest dope in the room. Everyone inside the Beltway knows this. The Republican voters themselves are the only ones who never saw it. Elections

Matt Taibbi

#10. Three months later, on September 5, 2001, at a pro-am event preceding the Canadian Open at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, I was invited to play a round with Tiger Woods. Nothing in the game of politics had ever been as nerve-racking as that game of golf.

Jean Chretien

#11. If you're going to play the game properly you'd better know every rule.

Barbara Jordan

#12. Kids are fair game; women are fair game.

Timothy McVeigh

#13. 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

#14. The rules of the game in Alabama politics is that no matter the provocation, no matter the justification, you take your whippings gracefully.

Bob Ingram

#15. I don't dabble in politics too much. I'm really ignorant to the world of politics. I'm not that smart, I'm not that cunning, it's just too much smoke and mirrors for me. I just don't want to play that game.

Michael K. Williams

#16. The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

Sandy Koufax

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Tis useful nonetheless, now and then, to regard Politics here, as the greater American Question in Miniature, - in the way that Chess represents war, - with Governor Penn a game-piece in the form of the King.

Thomas Pynchon

#20. 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

#21. Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

#22. 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

#23. When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?

Walter Kirn

#24. Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.

Evita Ochel

#25. 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

#26. politics was a necessarily dirty game of treachery and deceit.

Dave Robinson

#27. 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

#28. Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Henry Adams

#29. 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

#30. Politics has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious policy debates into sport.

Al Gore

#31. It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.

Jack Buck

#32. 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

#33. Politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.

Geraldine Ferraro

#34. Don't ever get involved in politics, Theo. It's a dirty game.

John Grisham

#35. Our politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.

Sting

#36. The Australian sees itself not as a mere newspaper, but as a player in the game of national politics, calling upon the vast resources of the Murdoch empire and the millions of words it has available to it to try to make and unmake governments.

Robert Manne

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.

Joe Biden

#40. I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

John Sununu

#41. As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.

Nancy Gibbs

#42. 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