Motivational Quotes

Politics

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Byrne, Robert

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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.

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

Hubbard, Kin

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Thatcher, Margaret

10.

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.

11.

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

14.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

15.

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

16.

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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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

19.

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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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

21.

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

22.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

25.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rogers, Will

27.

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

Goldwater, Barry

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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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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

30.

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

31.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

32.

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

33.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

34.

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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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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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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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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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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

40.

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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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

42.

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 history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.