Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Politics

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Seneca

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

Plato

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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 are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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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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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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 two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Cooper, James F.

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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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