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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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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

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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.

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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 has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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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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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

Shakespeare, William

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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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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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

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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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

Alfred E. Newman

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin