Motivational Quotes

Politics

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

- Henry Cate VII

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Rogers, Will

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

Thoreau, Henry David

The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Larry Hardiman

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

Fischer, John

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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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 almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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

Eban, Abba

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

Jackson, Jesse

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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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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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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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Cannon, Joseph

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

Margaret Cho

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

Alfred E. Newman

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Fredrich

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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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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

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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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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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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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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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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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Bush, George

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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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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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

Benn, Tony

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.