“Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.”– Paul Wellstone Related Quotes “There’s a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies – the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don’t like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It’s not the coin of the realm in politics.”– Ed Koch “I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don’t think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.”– Tony Blair “I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.”– Moira Kelly