Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

- Colby, Frank Moore

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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.

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Gaulle, Charles De

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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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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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Nathan, George Jean

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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 with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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

Mitchell, George J.

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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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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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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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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.