Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Politics

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.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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 gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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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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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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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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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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

Ambrose Bierce

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Pell, Claiborne

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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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