American political system Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

In politics, you have to understand that there are some cases where you'll never be able to get votes.

— Bert Lance

People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.

— William Greider

Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. The real political…

— James A. Garfield

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…

— Chuck Todd

A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.

— John F. Kerry

You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.

— Scott Pelley

Political life is like this - elections go back and forth. Representative democracy can only be successful if one sits down and says, 'That's…

— Helmut Kohl

When you win an election, you are always inclined to believe you won for the reasons you wanted to win.

— William Galston

Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Just because you can win a campaign doesn't always mean you should run a campaign.

— Laphonza Butler

You cannot win an election without a fight

— Tony Abbott

I'm the kind of person that believes there's a part of your voting that has to be purely on principle, and there's a part…

— Michael Moore