Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Hearst, William Randolph

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Lowman, Hariold

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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

Nathan, George Jean

In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Mitchell, George J.

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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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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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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

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

28.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

37.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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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