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

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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.

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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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

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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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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Mitchell, George J.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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

Plato

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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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.

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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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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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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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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 majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean