Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Politics

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Rogers, Will

Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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

Barres

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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.

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

Arbuthnot, John

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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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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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.