Motivational Quotes

Politics

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Politics

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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

Rogers, Will

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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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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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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

Naito, Fern

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A politician is a man who understands government and 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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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Noonan, Peggy

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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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

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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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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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.

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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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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.