Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Byrne, Robert

Best Quotes about Politics

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

Platen

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Horace

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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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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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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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

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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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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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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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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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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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will