Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

- Ameringer, Oscar

Best Quotes about Politics

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Will, George F.

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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

Mark B. Cohen

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

10.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

11.

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Charles De Gaulle

13.

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

14.

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

15.

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

16.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

17.

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

Nunn, Gregory

18.

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

Goldwater, Barry

19.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

20.

Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

21.

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

22.

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

23.

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

24.

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

25.

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

26.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

27.

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

28.

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Heine, Heinrich

30.

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

Will Rogers

31.

Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

32.

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

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

35.

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

Rostand, Jean

36.

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

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

Taft, William Howard

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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

40.

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

Naito, Fern

41.

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

42.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

45.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

47.

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

Paul Valery

48.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

49.

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.