Motivational Quotes

Politics

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

- Humphrey, Hubert H.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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

The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Dane, Frank

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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

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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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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Will Rogers

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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 tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Taft, William Howard

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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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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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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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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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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

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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

Seneca

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