Motivational Quotes

Politics

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

- Henry Cate VII

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Bagehot, Walter

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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

Reagan, Ronald

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Will, George F.

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

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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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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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

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

Aristotle

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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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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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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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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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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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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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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

Will, George F.

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

Taft, William Howard

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl