Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Bush, George

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

10.

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

12.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

13.

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

Hubbard, Kin

14.

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

15.

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

Will, George F.

18.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Huxley, Aldous

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Nixon, Richard M.

28.

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Marquis, Don

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

Churchill, Winston

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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

Welles, Orson

41.

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert