Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Hearst, William Randolph

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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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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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Kissinger, Henry

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Roche, John P.

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Grant, Amy

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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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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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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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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Broun, Heywood

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, 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