Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

- Dalton Camp

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Broun, Heywood

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Pell, Claiborne

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

Alfred E. Newman

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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

Herriot, Edouard

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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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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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Marquis, Don

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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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

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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

Field, Franklin

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

28.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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

Platen

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Seneca

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Tweed, Boss

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Major, John