Motivational Quotes

Politics

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Politics

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Plato

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

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

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.

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

10.

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

11.

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 Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Seneca

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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

Aristotle

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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

Jackson, Jesse

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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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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Charles De Gaulle

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

Ephron, Nora

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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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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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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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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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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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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John