Motivational Quotes

Politics

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

- Grant, Amy

Best Quotes about Politics

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Mitchell, George J.

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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

Pell, Claiborne

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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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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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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.

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

Fischer, John

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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

27.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Cameron, W. J.

31.

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

Kissinger, Henry

32.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Platen

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

Goldwater, Barry

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Benn, Tony

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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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.

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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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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

49.

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

Taft, William Howard

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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