Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics makes strange postmasters.

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Politics

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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.

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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.

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

Rogers, Will

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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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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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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

Wilde, Oscar

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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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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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 party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Rostand, Jean

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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

Major, John

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.