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

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

10.

Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

11.

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

12.

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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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

15.

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

17.

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

Brown, Jerry

18.

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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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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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

21.

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

Cary, Joyce

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Kissinger, Henry

25.

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

Dane, Frank

26.

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

Mccarthy, Mary

27.

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

28.

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

Major, John

29.

Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

34.

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

35.

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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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

40.

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

41.

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

Benn, Tony

42.

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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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

45.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

46.

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

Rostand, Jean

47.

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

49.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Fischer, John