Motivational Quotes

Politics

Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

- Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Lowman, Hariold

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.

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

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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

Nunn, Gregory

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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 in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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

Platen

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

Hattersley, Roy

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

Rogers, Will

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

Mark B. Cohen

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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 is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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

Major, 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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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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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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.