Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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.

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

Gaulle, Charles De

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Bryan, William Jennings

10.

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

11.

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

12.

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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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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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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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

18.

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

Seneca

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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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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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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 right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

24.

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

25.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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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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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Benn, Tony

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

Larry Hardiman

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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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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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

Roche, John P.

36.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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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 is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Bagehot, Walter

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Plato

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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