Motivational Quotes

Politics

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

- Goldwater, Barry

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

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

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Hearst, William Randolph

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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 is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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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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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

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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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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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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Rogers, Will

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

Alfred E. Newman

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

Cameron, W. J.

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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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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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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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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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore