Motivational Quotes

Politics

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Pell, Claiborne

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

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

Kempton, Murray

Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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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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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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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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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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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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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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

Higgins, George V.

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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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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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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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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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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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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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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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.