Motivational Quotes

Politics

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Politics

Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

28.

People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston