Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Bryan, William Jennings

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Ephron, Nora

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Quinton, John

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Horace

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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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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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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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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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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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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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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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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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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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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

Bush, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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