Motivational Quotes

Politics

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

- Clinton, Bill

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Hubbard, Kin

Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

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

Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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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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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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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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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Pell, Claiborne

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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

Dane, Frank

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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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 abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, 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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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Hattersley, Roy

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold