A Quote by Joe Barton

Politics in Washington is a contact sport. But it shouldn't be a personal animosity sport.

Joe Barton

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Animosity Contact Personal Politics Sport Washington

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Joe Barton
American - Politician
Born: September 15, 1949

Football is not a contact sport, it is said: it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Keith Jackson

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Vince Lombardi

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Duffy Daugherty

This is a contact sport. It's always been a contact sport, especially late in the race.

Brian France

I'm told that I look like a nice girl. But, yes, I do a full contact sport, and when people ask what I do, they are a bit surprised when I say, 'A martial art, a full contact sport.'

Carmen Marton

True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a contact sport but a blood sport.

Jim Cooper

Politics is a contact sport.

Steve Chabot

I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.