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

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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

Fredrich

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

10.

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

11.

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

18.

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

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

19.

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

Platen

21.

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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.

25.

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

26.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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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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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

34.

Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Landor, Walter Savage

36.

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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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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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pell, Claiborne

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

48.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

Benn, Tony

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