Motivational Quotes

Politics

The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

- Field, Franklin

Best Quotes about Politics

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

Ephron, Nora

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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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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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Roche, John P.

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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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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 house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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

Pell, Claiborne

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Nunn, Gregory

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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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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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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Seneca

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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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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Arbuthnot, John

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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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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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y