Motivational Quotes

Politics

The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

- Barres

Best Quotes about Politics

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

Lowman, Hariold

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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

Gaulle, Charles De

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Rogers, Will

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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.

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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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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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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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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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Fischer, John

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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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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rostand, Jean

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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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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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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.

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Brogan, Denis E.