Motivational Quotes

Politics

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Broun, Heywood

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Major, John

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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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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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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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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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

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Aristotle

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Russell, Dora

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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