Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Humphrey, Hubert H.

Best Quotes about Politics

If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Wilde, Oscar

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Pell, Claiborne

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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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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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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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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 has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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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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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 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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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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

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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera