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

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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.

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

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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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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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

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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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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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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Kissinger, Henry

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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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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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Alfred E. Newman

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Aristotle

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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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 Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Albert Einstein

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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.