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

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.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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

Horace

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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.

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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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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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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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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 lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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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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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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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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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Grant, Amy

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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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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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Alfred E. Newman

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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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