Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Greeley, Horace

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Reagan, Ronald

You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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

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

Benn, Tony

A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Pell, Claiborne

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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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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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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

Dane, Frank

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Bagehot, Walter

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Roche, John P.

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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

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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.