Motivational Quotes

Politics

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

- Deighton, Len

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Higgins, George V.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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

Kissinger, Henry

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Quinton, John

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Goldwater, Barry

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

Benn, Tony

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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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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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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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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William