“Negative politics have always been around.”– Karl Rove Related Quotes “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”– H. L. Mencken “I played by the rules of politics as I found them.”– Richard M. Nixon “I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.”– Sachin Tendulkar