Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Fuller, R. Buckminster

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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.

The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Lowman, Hariold

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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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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.

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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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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Broun, Heywood

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Mitchell, George J.

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Rogers, Will

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Cameron, W. J.

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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

Rostand, Jean

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Marquis, Don

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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 is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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

Noonan, Peggy

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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

Fredrich

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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