Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Bush, George

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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

Will, George F.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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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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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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

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

Dane, Frank

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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

Seneca

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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Noonan, Peggy

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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

Charles De Gaulle

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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Tweed, Boss

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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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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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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

Brown, Jerry

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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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

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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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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Rogers, Will

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore