Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Broun, Heywood

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

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Seneca

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

10.

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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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 skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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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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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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

Eban, Abba

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

20.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

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

27.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

28.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Barres

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

31.

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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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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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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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

37.

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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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

43.

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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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 has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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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