Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Politics

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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

Ambrose Bierce

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Plato

13.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

14.

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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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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

Fredrich

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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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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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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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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.

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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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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

26.

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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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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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

32.

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

33.

I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

34.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

42.

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

43.

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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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 far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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