Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Politics

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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.

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

Dane, Frank

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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

Arbuthnot, John

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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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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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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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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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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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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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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks