Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

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

Arbuthnot, John

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

10.

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

11.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

12.

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

13.

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

23.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

24.

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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

Kempton, Murray

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

41.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Lowman, Hariold

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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.

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman