Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Politics

Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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.

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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.

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Cameron, W. J.

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

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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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Roche, John P.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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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.

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Naito, Fern

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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 work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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

Grant, Amy

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Nunn, Gregory

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin