Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Bolingbroke, Henry

Best Quotes about Politics

To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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

Cooper, James F.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Roche, John P.

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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

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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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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Nunn, Gregory

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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

Fischer, John

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

Plato

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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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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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

Rogers, Will

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Naito, Fern

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

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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