Motivational Quotes

Politics

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Politics

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mccarthy, Mary

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

32.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin