Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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.

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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

Mark B. Cohen

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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

Will Rogers

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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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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Hattersley, Roy

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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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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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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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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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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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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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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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 should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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.

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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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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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Dane, Frank

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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 politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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

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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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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John