Politics Winning Quotes

#1. The only future Barack Obama is trying to win is his own reelection.

Sarah Palin

#2. Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

William Safire

#3. What worries me is that I am not sure any of the Republicans, or any Democrat, is ready to 'go to the mats.' And, ergo, I am concerned that our current leaders are simply incapable of creating a winning war strategy.

Rick Elkin

#4. 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.

Matt Taibbi

#5. Politics isn't just about doing the right thing. It's also about winning.

Susan Estrich

#6. First you win the argument, then you win the vote.

Margaret Thatcher

#7. What the Nazis themselves claimed to be their chief discovery - the role of the Jewish people in world politics - and their chief interest - persecution of Jews all over the world - have been regarded by public opinion as a pretext for winning the masses or an interesting device of demagogy.

Hannah Arendt

#8. Congress should not be like the Super Bowl where you have to have one team that's going to win and another team that's going to be a loser.

John Breaux

#9. We may like to think politics is a battle of ideas and that the best idea wins out. But that's not true in most elections. Most elections are about the worst ideas losing, not the best ideas winning.

Chuck Todd

#10. 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.

Barack Obama

#11. Conservatives talk constantly about the centrality of morality and the family in their politics, while liberals did not talk about these things until conservatives started winning elections by doing so.

George Lakoff

#12. If you lose, you can't lead. If you don't lead, you're irrelevant. Winning is what it's all about in politics.

Lionel Sosa

#13. Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest.

Sean Wilentz

#14. Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

David Horowitz

#15. Clinton cannot possibly win in 2000.

Dan Quayle

#16. McChrystal had organized a jaw-dropping counterterrorism campaign inside Iraq, but the tactical successes did not translate into a strategic victory. This was why counterinsurgency - blanketing the population in safety and winning them over - was necessary.

Bob Woodward

#17. The new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

Gloria Steinem

#18. Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

#19. You know, in politics when you come in third, it's a win.

Paula Poundstone

#20. The Democratic Party will now stick with its guy forever, no matter how harmful he is. Perhaps you call that loyalty, and perhaps there's something to it, but a bigger part, I believe, is that you have come to think that winning is everything-that victory is the purpose of politics.

Peggy Noonan

#21. When we win on an issue we call it leadership. When we lose, we call it politics. Practicing politics simply means increasing your options for effective results.

John Eldred

#22. Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.

Charles Tillman

#23. Any ideology that places more emphasis on winning converts than on sound philosophy is sadly misguided. By this reasoning, all of our political parties and most of our religions are sadly misguided.

Michel Templet

#24. I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support.

Gordon Brown

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

Mickey Rourke

#26. There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.

Warren Buffett

#27. In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.

John F. Kerry

#28. I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#29. It is about time that the religious and environmental faithful joined forces. No one wins when divisive politics pits the right to human life against the sanctity of biodiversity, or family values against ecosystem services. There are infinite compatible reasons to love, cherish and steward Earth.

Alex Bruce

#30. The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems.

Tony Blair

#31. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

Paul Wellstone

#32. You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula.

George Wells Beadle