Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Hattersley, Roy

Best Quotes about Politics

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Grant, Amy

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

20.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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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

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

33.

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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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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

Huxley, Aldous

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Benn, Tony

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

41.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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