Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

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

Best Quotes about Politics

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Broun, Heywood

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

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

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Alfred E. Newman

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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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 politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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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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

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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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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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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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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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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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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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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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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony