Motivational Quotes

Politics

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

- Amis, Kingsley

Best Quotes about Politics

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Quinton, John

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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

Brown, Jerry

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

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Mccarthy, Mary

11.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Nathan, George Jean

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Noonan, Peggy

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Kennedy, Joseph