Motivational Quotes

Politics

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

- Arbuthnot, John

Best Quotes about Politics

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

One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Brown, Jerry

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Alfred E. Newman

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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 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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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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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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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Deighton, Len

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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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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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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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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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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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

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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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

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

Rogers, Will

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Goldwater, Barry