Motivational Quotes

Politics

The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

- Anderson, John B.

Best Quotes about Politics

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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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

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

Bush, George

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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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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Paul Valery

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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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

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

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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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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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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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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Roche, John P.

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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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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

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

Barres

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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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

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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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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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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.