Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Politics

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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

Fredrich

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Truman, Harry S

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

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Field, Franklin

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

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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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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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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 political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Platen

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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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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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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

Naito, Fern

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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 the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius