Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Broun, Heywood

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Pepper, Claude D.

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Platen

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Fischer, John

11.

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

Rostand, Jean

12.

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

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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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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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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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

19.

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

Nunn, Gregory

21.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hattersley, Roy

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

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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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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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

30.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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

Shakespeare, William

32.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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