Motivational Quotes

Politics

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

- Cannon, Joseph

Best Quotes about Politics

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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

Rogers, Will

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Brown, Jerry

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

Wilde, Oscar

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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

Goldwater, Barry

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

Rogers, Will

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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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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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Benn, Tony

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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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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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Fredrich

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kissinger, Henry

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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A politician is a man who understands government and 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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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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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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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John