Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Brogan, Denis E.

Best Quotes about Politics

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Horace

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

Cary, Joyce

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

Alfred E. Newman

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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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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

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

Seneca

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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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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Broun, Heywood

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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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 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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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Pell, Claiborne

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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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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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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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.

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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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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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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George