Motivational Quotes

Politics

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

- Albert Einstein

Best Quotes about Politics

The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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

Horace

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

Kennedy, Joseph

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

Rostand, Jean

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Rogers, Will

Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

10.

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

11.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

12.

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

13.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

14.

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

16.

Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

17.

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

Brogan, Denis E.

18.

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

19.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

20.

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

21.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

22.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

23.

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

25.

The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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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

28.

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

29.

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

Bacon, Francis

30.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

31.

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

34.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

35.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

38.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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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 politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

43.

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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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

45.

Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

46.

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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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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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.