Motivational Quotes

Politics

Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Politics

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

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

Greeley, Horace

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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

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

Benn, Tony

I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

10.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

12.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

13.

Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

17.

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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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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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

20.

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

21.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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.

24.

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

Taft, William Howard

25.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

26.

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

27.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

28.

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

29.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Tweed, Boss

34.

The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

35.

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

Bush, George

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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

40.

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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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

42.

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

43.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

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

47.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

48.

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

49.

Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

50.

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

Platen