Motivational Quotes

Politics

If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bagehot, Walter

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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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

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

Pell, Claiborne

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

Mitchell, George J.

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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Grant, Amy

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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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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Cary, Joyce

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Field, Franklin

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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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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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

Herriot, Edouard

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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