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

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Aristotle

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

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

Alfred E. Newman

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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.

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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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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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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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.

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

Ambrose Bierce

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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

Tweed, Boss

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott