Motivational Quotes

Politics

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

- Eban, Abba

Best Quotes about Politics

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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

Will, George F.

To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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

Swift, Jonathan

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

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

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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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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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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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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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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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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Albert Einstein

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hattersley, Roy

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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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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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

Certeau, Michel De

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Arbuthnot, John

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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

Nunn, Gregory

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan