Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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

Will, George F.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Tweed, Boss

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

Aristotle

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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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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Rogers, Will

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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

Platen

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Broun, Heywood

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.