Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

- Herriot, Edouard

Best Quotes about Politics

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Jefferson, Thomas

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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

Will, George F.

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

Grant, Amy

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Alfred E. Newman

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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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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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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 is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

31.

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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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 no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy