Motivational Quotes

Politics

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.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Cary, Joyce

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

Lincoln, Abraham

People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

Lowman, Hariold

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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.

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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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

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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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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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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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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Major, John

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Rogers, Will

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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