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

People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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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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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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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

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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 thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Plato

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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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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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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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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

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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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 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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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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

Rogers, Will

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

Major, John

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Marquis, Don

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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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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.