Motivational Quotes

Politics

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

- Galsworthy, John

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

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

Cannon, Joseph

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

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

Rogers, Will

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Kissinger, Henry

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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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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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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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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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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

Tweed, Boss

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

Cooper, James F.

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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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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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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.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Bagehot, Walter

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Seneca

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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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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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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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 first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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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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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh