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

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

Marquis, Don

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

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

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Will, George F.

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

Quinton, John

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Lowman, Hariold

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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

16.

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

Taft, William Howard

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

18.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

19.

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

Alfred E. Newman

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

25.

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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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

27.

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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

Mitchell, George J.

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

32.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

35.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Broun, Heywood

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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.

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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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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin