Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Mencken, H. L.

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Major, John

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

10.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

11.

The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

12.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

13.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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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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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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

Seneca

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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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.

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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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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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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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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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Lowman, Hariold

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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

39.

When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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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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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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

Fredrich

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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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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl