Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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

Field, Franklin

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Rostand, Jean

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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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

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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

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Roche, John P.

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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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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Brown, Jerry

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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

Benn, Tony