Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Ephron, Nora

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Dane, Frank

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

Rogers, Will

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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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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

21.

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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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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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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

37.

When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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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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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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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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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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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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.