Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

- Dalton Camp

Best Quotes about Politics

Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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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 doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Broun, Heywood

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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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.

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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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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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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Seneca

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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

Alfred E. Newman

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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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

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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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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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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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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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon