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

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

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

10.

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.

11.

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

Barres

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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.

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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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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

16.

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

Dane, Frank

17.

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

18.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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

Fischer, John

20.

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

Alfred E. Newman

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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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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

25.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

28.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

29.

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

Kissinger, Henry

30.

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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

Lowman, Hariold

34.

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

35.

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

36.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

38.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

40.

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

44.

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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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

49.

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.

50.

I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin