Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Politics

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Benn, Tony

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Ambrose Bierce

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Major, John

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Mark B. Cohen

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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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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 have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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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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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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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

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

Alfred E. Newman

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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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 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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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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

Will, George F.

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry