Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Rogers, Will

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Mark B. Cohen

I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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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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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Major, John

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

Marquis, Don

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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.

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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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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston