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

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

Plato

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

Fredrich

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

Alfred E. Newman

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Shakespeare, William

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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

Brown, Jerry

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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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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Hattersley, Roy

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

Goldwater, Barry

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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

Aristotle

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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 is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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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

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.