Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about 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

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nunn, Gregory

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Rogers, Will

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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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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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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.

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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

21.

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

22.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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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, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

28.

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Mitchell, George J.

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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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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 is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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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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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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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.