Christine Milne Quotes

My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.

Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader.

It's interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.

I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes.

If I worried about pollsters, I wouldn't be president.

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.

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

You can’t win if you don’t play. The people who get involved in politics are more likely to get their way.

I believe I have learned much from the mistakes that I made when I was Mayor, that I have grown from these experiences. [He won!]

During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.

I am not one of those who wants Obama to fail. If he does well, that means the country's doing well.

Republicans need to unite to succeed.

Nobody has a cakewalk to become governor.

We say only the BJP can be the alternative force in Tamil Nadu. Our party is providing good governance in many States in the country and we are confident of repeating this success in Tamil Nadu also.

So long as I'm the president, my measure of success is victory -- and success.

The National Socialist Movement has wrought this miracle. If Almighty God granted success to this work, then the Party was His instrument.

We created a new democratic Croatia, ... The HDZ is the strongest party in Croatia, and it achieved this not because of us politicians but because of you, the people of Croatia.

When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, "New Labour is a new political party" - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.

The GOP will be, from now on, the party also of the American worker. If you look at how much bigger our party has gotten during this cycle, millions and millions of people were joining. Now, I won't say it was because of me, but it was, OK?

If you think about conservative ideas, conservative principles, the fact that Donald Trump goes back at George W. Bush over weapons of mass destruction or gets into fights with the pope, and there's no outreach in terms of growth of the party. I think lots of people fear for the future of the party.

Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

Together, we will lead the Republican party back to the White House and we will lead our country back to safety, prosperity and peace.

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.

Is it important that you have a strong leadership for your party? I think it's critical.