“Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.”– Richard M. Nixon Related Quotes “I’m no expert on American politics.”– Bjorn Lomborg “Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration’s worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.”– Dee Dee Myers “The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.”– Aldous Huxley