Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

- Armey, Dick

Best Quotes about Politics

If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Cameron, W. J.

Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Benn, Tony

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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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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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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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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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Rogers, Will

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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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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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.