Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Cary, Joyce

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Rogers, Will

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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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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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Fredrich

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rostand, Jean

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Macmillan, Harold

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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

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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

Rogers, Will

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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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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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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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Cameron, W. J.

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George 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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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara