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

The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

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

Marquis, Don

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

Halifax, Edward F.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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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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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John 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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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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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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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Rogers, Will

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

Alfred E. Newman

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Rogers, Will

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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Taft, William Howard

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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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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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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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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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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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame