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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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

Grant, Amy

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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

Landor, Walter Savage

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Alfred E. Newman

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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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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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Rogers, Will

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Paul Valery

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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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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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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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 order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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

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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Nathan, George Jean

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

Welles, Orson

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

Mitchell, George J.

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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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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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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George