Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Politics

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Ephron, Nora

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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

Rostand, Jean

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Rogers, Will

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Mark B. Cohen

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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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

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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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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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

Cameron, W. J.

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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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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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

36.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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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 greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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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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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.