Motivational Quotes

Politics

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

- Cudworth, Ralph J.

Best Quotes about Politics

People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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.

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Rogers, Will

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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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Byrne, Robert

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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 the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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

Pell, Claiborne

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

Platen

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

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

Mitchell, George J.

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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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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Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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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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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

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail