Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Hearst, William Randolph

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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

Bevan, Aneurin

The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Broun, Heywood

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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

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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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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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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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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

Taft, William Howard

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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