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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.
- Franklin, Billy Boy
Politics Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Politics

1.
Politics is a blood sport.
Bevan, Aneurin

2.
In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

3.
The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
Rogers, Will

4.
No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.

5.
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
Mark B. Cohen

6.
Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle

7.
A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.
Baruch, Bernard M.

8.
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

9.
The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
Seneca

10.
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.

11.
Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
Halifax, Edward F.

12.
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Bagehot, Walter

13.
An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
Cameron, W. J.

14.
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
Rostand, Jean

15.
Never answer a question from a farmer.
Humphrey, Hubert H.

16.
He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar

17.
A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.
Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

18.
When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Truman, Harry S

19.
The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.
Anderson, John B.

20.
It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.
Truman, Harry S

21.
Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.
Churchill, Winston

22.
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Rogers, Will

23.
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
Plato

24.
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.
Ameringer, Oscar

25.
I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
Truman, Harry S

26.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Disraeli, Benjamin

27.
Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

28.
It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.
Lieberman, Gerald F.

29.
In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.
If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.
Johnson, Lyndon B.

31.
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
Cooper, James F.

32.
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
Russell, Dora

33.
Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
Kirkpatrick, Jeane

34.
The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
Rogers, Will

35.
Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
Truman, Harry S

36.
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.

37.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
Mill, John Stuart

38.
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

39.
It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
Goldwater, Barry

40.
To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.
Safire, William

41.
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

42.
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

43.
Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.
Greenfield, Meg

44.
As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.
Macmillan, Harold

45.
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
Benn, Tony

46.
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Nathan, George Jean

47.
Politics is the science of urgencies.
Parker, Theodore

48.
People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.
Watanabe, Michio

49.
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

50.
He could not see a belt without hitting below it.
Asquith, Margot


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