Motivational Quotes

Politics

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

- Greenfield, Meg

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Taft, William Howard

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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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 only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Roche, John P.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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

Fredrich

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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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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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hattersley, Roy

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter