Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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

Bacon, Francis

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Clarke, James Freeman

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

11.

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

Dane, Frank

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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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 do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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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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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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 profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Byrne, Robert