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

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

Rogers, Will

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

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.

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

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Brown, Jerry

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Alfred E. Newman

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

Bacon, Francis

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A politician is a man who understands government and 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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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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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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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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

Rogers, Will

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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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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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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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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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

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

Nathan, George Jean

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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

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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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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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Charles De Gaulle

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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

Margaret Cho

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh