Motivational Quotes

Politics

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Politics

The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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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

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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A politician is a man who understands government and 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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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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

Benn, Tony

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

Benn, Tony

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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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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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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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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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

Broun, Heywood

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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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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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

Hattersley, Roy

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Mitchell, George J.

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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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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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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 makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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

Nathan, George Jean

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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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