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 the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Larry Hardiman

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Margaret Cho

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Will Rogers

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

Swift, Jonathan

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Rogers, Will

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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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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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

Orwell, George

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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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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Nunn, Gregory

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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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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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl