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

Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Will, George F.

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

10.

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

Fredrich

11.

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

Arbuthnot, John

12.

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

13.

A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

14.

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

15.

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

17.

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

18.

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

19.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

20.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

21.

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

22.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

23.

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

24.

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

25.

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

26.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

27.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

28.

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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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

32.

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.

33.

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

35.

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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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

38.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

40.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

41.

The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

42.

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

Fischer, John

43.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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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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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin