Motivational Quotes

Politics

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Politics

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kempton, Murray

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Plato

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.

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

Pell, Claiborne

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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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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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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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 played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Fredrich

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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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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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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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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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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