A Quote by Jim Moore

In politics, when you`re explaining, you`re losing.

Jim Moore

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Explaining Losing Politics

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Jim Moore
Baseball player
December 14, 1903 - May 19, 1973

If you are explaining, you are losing.

J. C. Watts

If you're explaining, you're losing.

Ronald Reagan

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

John Podhoretz

In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.

Rick Perlstein

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

Kevin J. Anderson

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

James McGreevey

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

Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.

P. J. O'Rourke

As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?

Gil Kalai

The politics of personal destruction, the politics of division, the politics of fear, it's all there. It helps you to define the politics of moderation - the politics of democratic respect, the politics of hope - more clearly.

Michael Ignatieff

There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go.

George Saunders

We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.

Arundhati Roy

It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.

Glenn Frey

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

Paul Wellstone

If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.