Motivational Quotes

Politics

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

- Brown, Jerry

Best Quotes about Politics

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Lowman, Hariold

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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

Charles De Gaulle

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

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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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Dane, Frank

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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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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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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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

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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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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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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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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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

Cooper, James F.

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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