Political Games Quotes

The [political] parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

The Democrats are standing on one side, and the Republicans are playing games on the other. Both sides are playing games.

I - and, I suspect, millions of Americans like me, Republicans and Democrats alike - couldn't care less about Obama's middle name or the ridiculous six-degrees-of-separation game that is the William Ayers non-issue.

I'm not consumed with political machinations.

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

One of the things government should be around for is to deal with catastrophes. It should do that well. To me, that's a government function, and we shouldn't be playing political games with it.

I'm not into political gamesmanship.

I've gotten to believe it's more fun to play politicians than actually be them.

I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.

We don't have time to play politics with people's lives or the planet's future.

Unfortunately, most gun control advocates are not really interested in rational debate, and their political games simply send Alice chasing white rabbits down holes.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats needs to end.

I'm not a guy who plays political games, and I believe absolutely in one method, which is directness.

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

Part of the game in the first three years is to make sure that during the year the Mayor runs there is an unusually large expansion of services.

Ideas really do matter. But in any organization a good idea will only go so far unless its proponents are willing to fight the political games to get the idea adopted.

Our constituents deserve better than narrow-minded political games.

In the game of politics, both parties are sometimes guilty of passing really stupid laws that, in reality, are purely symbolic and have no real impact on anyone.

In our national discourse and in pursuing our national agenda, we must never leave anyone behind. We must reach out to the many who may have been disaffected and left confused by political games, deceit and showmanship.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what's going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em at play, either back home in their native state, or after they've been captured and sent to a zoo, or to Washington.

That will change over time the entire flow of information and the entire quality of knowledge in the country and it will change the way people will try to play games in the legislative process.

Most Americans will let liberals and conservatives play their games because most Americans don't pay attention.