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

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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

Rogers, Will

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

Will, George F.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

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

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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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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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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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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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 majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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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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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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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

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Field, Franklin

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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Hattersley, Roy

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Marquis, Don

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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

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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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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.

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.