Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Major, John

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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

Albert Einstein

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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

Kempton, Murray

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

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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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 politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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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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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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

Hattersley, Roy

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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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

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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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

32.

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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

Rogers, Will

38.

Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Barres

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Rogers, Will

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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

Seneca

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

Kissinger, Henry

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.