Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Politics

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Thoreau, Henry David

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

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.

11.

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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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

14.

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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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

Naito, Fern

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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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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Rogers, Will

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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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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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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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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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Fredrich

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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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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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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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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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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 human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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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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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean