Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Berra, Yogi

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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 find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

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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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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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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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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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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Nunn, Gregory

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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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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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.