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

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Marquis, Don

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

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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

Byrne, Robert

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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 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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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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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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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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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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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

32.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Platen

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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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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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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

48.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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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.