Motivational Quotes

Politics

A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

- Fredrich

Best Quotes about Politics

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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

Lowman, Hariold

We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Rogers, Will

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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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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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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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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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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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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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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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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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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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

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, 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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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Brown, Jerry

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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.

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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