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You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again.

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.

The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?

No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

Companies have long gathered data to break down their customer base into specific segments. Now political parties have become adept at micro-targeting, too, using data on shopping habits, leisure activities, voting histories, charity donations, and so on, in order to pinpoint likely supporters and the type of appeal most likely to win them over.

The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed.

A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity.

My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.

Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

You've got to be stupid to heckle me - I am very equipped to win.