Motivational Quotes

Politics

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Cameron, W. J.

2.

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

3.

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.

4.

It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

5.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

6.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

7.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

8.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

9.

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

11.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

13.

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

14.

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

15.

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

16.

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

17.

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

Russell, Dora

18.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

19.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

20.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

22.

Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

23.

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

24.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

27.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

28.

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

Grant, Amy

29.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

30.

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.

31.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

32.

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

Larry Hardiman

33.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

34.

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

35.

To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

36.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

37.

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

Bagehot, Walter

38.

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

Greeley, Horace

39.

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

Reagan, Ronald

40.

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

Broun, Heywood

41.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

42.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

43.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

44.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

45.

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

46.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

47.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

48.

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

Bryan, William Jennings

49.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

50.

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.