Motivational Quotes

Politics

Never answer a question from a farmer.

- Humphrey, Hubert H.

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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

Marquis, Don

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Pell, Claiborne

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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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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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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

Rogers, Will

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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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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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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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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 the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Seneca

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Field, Franklin

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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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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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Taft, William Howard

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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